Tag: antibiotic

Neonatal antibiotic use may lead to reduced growth in boys

Antibiotics had been administered within the first 14 days of life to 1,151 (9.3 percent) of the neonates in the study.

January 27, 2021

University of Dundee research helps explain links between antibiotic use and heart attack risk

Clarithromycin accounts for around 15% of all primary care antibiotic prescriptions in the UK and is recommended for treatment of patients with chest infections.

November 24, 2020

Indoor dust bacteria have transferable antibiotic resistance genes: Study

Bacteria can share many different types of genes as long as the genes have mobile segments of DNA.

January 26, 2020

Sharp increase in antibiotic use in India: Study

India, second most populated country in the world, witnessed enormous gains in antibiotic use both overall and on a per capita gain basis. A study conducted by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) revealed that between 2000 and 2015 human consumption of antibiotics in India more than doubled. It was up from 3.2 …

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April 1, 2018

Antibiotic apocalypse~II

As worrisome as the AMR crisis is the risk of disrupting the ecological system within our bodies due to non-judicious uses of antimicrobials. Indeed, all of us have a microbiome of bacteria (and a much smaller number of viruses, yeasts, and amoebas) that outnumbers the cells of our bodies by the approximate ratio of ten …

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November 13, 2017

New test identifies antibiotic-resistant bacteria in 30 minutes

Scientists have pioneered a method to detect antibiotic susceptibility for urinary tract infections in less than 30 minutes, potentially enabling patients to be diagnosed and prescribed effective treatments during a single clinical visit. The new test developed at California Institute of Technology that identifies antibiotic-resistant bacteria could shorten wait times from 3 days to less …

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October 9, 2017

Delayed prescriptions may help fight antibiotic resistance

  Delayed prescriptions or shorter courses of treatment may help fight antibiotic resistance, researchers have found. Researchers at University of Southampton in the UK followed thousands of patients who visited their general physicians (GP) with a sore throat. In the first study, patients who were given antibiotics straight away started to recover around a day …

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August 16, 2017

‘Magical’ antibiotic modified to beat bacterial resistance

Researchers have found a way to make a 'magical' antibiotic so powerful that it could eliminate the threat of antibiotic-resistant infections for years to come. Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in the US structurally modified the lifesaving antibiotic called vancomycin to make an already-powerful version of the antibiotic even more potent. In tests, …

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May 30, 2017

Novel antibiotic resistance gene found in milk

A 'harmless' bacteria found in milk and products like cheese may carry a new antibiotic resistance gene which could jeopardise the use of last resort drugs to treat superbug infections in humans, scientists say. Researchers of the University of Bern in Switzerland identified the antibiotic resistance gene in bacteria from dairy cows. This gene confers …

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May 1, 2017