The fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a monumental challenge that has far-reaching implications on our lives. AMR not only affects our health, but also has significant social, economic, and…
Isabell TrinhJuly 6, 2022
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Types of resistance mechanisms and their spread In 1945, the year that he won the Nobel Prize for discovering penicillin, Alexander Fleming warned the world that misuse of antibiotics could…
Eva RennenJune 16, 2022
Antibiotic overuse in animals might even be graver than in humans. In the US, 70% of all used antibiotics are routinely given to healthy(!) animals. And it turns out that…
Eva RennenJune 16, 2022
One can imagine that the Emergency Department is a place where quick decision-making is crucial, but for bacterial diagnosis this very often means symptom-based treatment decisions. One UK-study aimed to…
Eva RennenJune 16, 2022
Nowadays more and more organizations and governments are starting to acknowledge AMR and act on the problem. A few years ago, the WHO also published the priority pathogen list, which…
Eva RennenJune 16, 2022
Over the past months we have posted on the importance of conscious usage of antibiotics in patients. However, besides humans, there is another large part of the problem: antibiotics in the livestock industry. In the US, of the…
Eva RennenJune 16, 2022
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