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Antibiotics transformed health care for the better, but their diminishing effectiveness may soon be its undoing. Researchers are studying ways to fight back against resistance.
Nasal irrigation has been used to treat the common cold for thousands of years, and modern science shows that it works.
Measles is a viral infection, so antibiotics don’t treat it directly. But it weakens the immune system, leading to bacterial infections like pneumonia or ear infections, which do require antibiotics.
Resistance to antimicrobial drugs is a major global health challenge, so dealing with neglected tropical diseases is vital.
Antibiotics have been around for less than a century. But as resistant bacteria become increasingly difficult to treat, we risk a greater number of deaths from infections.
We asked 7 global experts in microbiology and biochemistry if we are headed towards a future with no antimicrobial agents.
The challenge of antimicrobial resistance is global, but low- and medium-income countries like Nigeria face particular challenges.
Despite an abundance of research on strep, there is still a great deal of debate in the scientific community over whether and when people should get tested and treated for it.
Antibiotic resistance has contributed to millions of deaths worldwide. Research suggests that any bacteria can develop antibiotic tolerance, and possibly resistance, when pushed to their limits.
The US currently has only one antibiotic available to treat gonorrhea – and it’s becoming less effective.
Antimicrobial resistance kills around 700,000 people worldwide annually. It is a top-ten global health threat.
Resistant bacteria aren’t the only risk posed by overprescribing antibiotics. A more immediate risk is side-effects and reactions, which a new review shows are surprisingly frequent and often severe.
Estimating the cost of antibiotic resistance to economies and health-care systems is fraught with difficulty, but new research says Australia will be hit harder than we think.
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health challenges we face today. But making a few small changes to the way antibiotics are prescribed could make a big difference in Australia.
We are seeing the end of modern medicine slowly being played out due to antibiotic resistance. But we can act together to alter the situation.
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Dean of the College of Science, Professor of Biochemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Research Assistant at Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary
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MD, General practitioner, PhD-student, Lund University
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, medical microbiology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State
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Professor of Biocchemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University
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Instructor in Allergy/Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Calgary
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Project Officer, OUTBREAK Project, University of Technology Sydney
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Consultant Microbiologist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland and Professor and Head of Department, Clinical Microbiology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Cape Town
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Pesquisadora de Pós-doutorado, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/EAESP)
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Distinguished Research Professor of Microbiology, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universitas Andalas