Each year, tens of thousands of people die because they are infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Even more alarming, resistant bacteria are breaking out to infect healthy people outside the hospital ward.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect 100, 000 patients a year, and they are notoriously hard to fight.
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And these infectious patients spread resistant bacteria to other patients in a hospital setting.
The World Health Organization has found that three-fifths of HAIs are caused by drug-resistant bacteria.
This will help reduce the transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from colonised wounds to susceptible patients.
Being less reliant on antimicrobial drugs might also help minimise the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, she added.
This is used to detect antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which are a growing problem for those fighting the disease.
Until we do, the routine use of antibiotics will continue to breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health.
Drug-resistant bacteria are a growing and deadly problem--and the market for medicines to kill them is quickly increasing.
Recent examples: molecules to target drug-resistant bacteria and a kinase inhibitor to zap the enzyme responsible for tumor growth.
Last week brought one of the more exciting results of that collaboration: an anti-microbial hydrogel that eradicates drug-resistant bacteria.
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It's using bacteria-hating (and thankfully harmless) viruses as biosensors to quickly identify superbugs, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can sometimes prove fatal.
Electronic clinical surveillance systems allow doctors to identify drug-resistant bacteria in patients quickly and stop infections before they get out of hand.
The more antibiotics are overused, the more the population of resistant bacteria swells -- and antibiotics are overused in a number of ways.
In addition, the Environmental Working Group last week published an analysis of existing data on antibiotic-resistant bacteria contained in meat sold in supermarkets.
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The continued use of growth promoters - low-dose antibiotics placed in livestock feed - risks the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria which could threaten human health.
Such drugs have side-effects, however: not only do they lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but some, such as metronidazole, can be dangerous in their own right.
Why are there so few new medicines targeted at resistant bacteria?
The team had also started several broad-spectrum antibiotics all at once, and this regimen had to be dialled back if they were to avoid breeding resistant bacteria.
It is no accident that the European nation with the lowest incidence of drug-resistant bacteria, Holland, uses the drugs much more selectively than the rest of the continent.
In the 10-year time period covered by the Global Risks report, it is far from unrealistic to project a significant spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria with high mortality rates.
Then the late 1990s saw an increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Our overuse of antibiotics has helped foster more numerous and stronger antibiotic-resistant microbes, to the point that we're running out of "last line" drugs to fight even the most resistant bacteria.
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Two years ago, the agency began to try to rescind the approval of Fluoroquinolone antibiotics in poultry, after it was determined that the drugs were creating resistant bacteria that made people sick.
The NIAID has a considerable research program dedicated to fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria and the agency awards grants to deserving companies that focus on the identification of new antimicrobials to fight threatening superbugs.
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