Antibiotic Resistance

IDSA Welcomes Reintroduction of STAAR Act in Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) says it applauds Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT) for reintroducing the Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance (STAAR) Act to provide urgently needed federal leadership to tackle this growing public health crisis. IDSA has ...More
2 weeks ago
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Duke to Co-Lead NIH Research Network on Antibacterial Resistance

Investigators at Duke Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have been selected to oversee a nationwide research program on antibacterial resistance, which includes a focus on the growing unmet challenges associated with methicillin-resistant ...More
3 weeks ago
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Antibiotic Stewardship Program Using Mass Spec System Reduces Hospital Stays, Costs

A co-author of a groundbreaking study documenting reductions in patient length of stay and overall costs from implementation of an antibiotic stewardship program using Bruker's MALDI Biotyper will share her observations at a Bruker symposium to be held during the upcoming ...More
May 15, 2013
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Preserving Antibiotic Effectiveness is Everybody's Responsibility

Today on the CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog, Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, discusses the urgent need to preserve antibiotics. He highlights the emerging crisis of antibiotic resistance and likens antibiotics to a ...More
May 10, 2013
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Slide Show: Antimicrobial Resistance

The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and similar drugs—called antimicrobials—is considered a major public health threat by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its counterparts around the world. Antibiotics have transformed healthcare since they were introduced ...More
May 9, 2013
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Biosensor Detects Antibiotic Resistance

On May 8 JoVE published research that demonstrates how a biosensor can detect antibiotic resistance in bacteria. This new technology is a preliminary step in identifying and fighting superbugs, a major public health concern that has led to more deaths than AIDS in the ...More
May 8, 2013
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Scientist Says People Living in Border Communities Need Education About Antibiotic Overuse, Misuse

When thousands of experimental biology researchers gather in Boston, many of them undoubtedly will be presenting work related to the hunt for the next generation of antibiotics and how to battle back existing and emerging superbugs. But for one scientist from the Texas Rio ...More
April 22, 2013
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Progress in Antibiotic Development Remains Alarmingly Elusive, New IDSA Reports Says

Despite the desperate need for new antibiotics to combat increasingly deadly resistant bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved only one new systemic antibiotic since the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) launched its 10 x ’20 Initiative in ...More
April 18, 2013
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Outpatients, Hospital Patients Face Different Problems with Antibiotic Resistance

A new study concludes that problems with antibiotic resistance faced by outpatients may be as bad as those in hospitalized patients, and that more studies of outpatients are needed – both to protect their health and to avoid inappropriate or unnecessary drug use. Antibiotic ...More
April 18, 2013
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Certain Antibiotics May Help Respiratory Disorder, Increase Risk of Antibiotic Resistance

Among patients with the lung disorder non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis, treatment with the antibiotic azithromycin or erythromycin resulted in improvement in symptoms but also increased the risk of antibiotic resistance, according to two studies appearing in the March 27 ...More
March 26, 2013
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