Resistance in the News, 30th Aug update
Resistance in the News is an arbitrary selection of articles with relevancetoantibiotic resistance and antibiotic use that have come to our attentionlately.The articles have been published in various internet media and on-linescientificjournals. The list is by no means complete and does not necessarilyreflect theopinion of the ReAct network.
International Media
Superbakterie NDM- 1 ist in Österreich angekommen. Zwei Fälle wurden in Graz offiziell bestätigt: Am Freitag gab das Gesundheitsministerium bekannt, dass an der MedUni Graz zwei Fälle von Infektionen mit Darmbakterien festgestellt wurden, welche auch gegen das Spitalsantibiotikum Carbapenem resistent. Vorarlberg Online (German) also in Stern (German) and CBS News
Berlin steht bei Krankenhaushygiene gut da. Nach dem Tod dreier Säuglinge in Mainz werden Fragen über Hygiene in Berliner Krankenhäusern laut. Hier arbeiten Fachkräfte nach einheitlichen Vorschriften. Trotzdem infizieren sich noch fünf Prozent der Kranken. Der Tagesspiegel (German) same subject on morgenweb (German)
Experte: Krankenhausinfekte kosten 2,5 Milliarden. Rund 2,5 Mrd. Euro werden nach Expertenschätzung in Deutschland jährlich für die Behandlung von Krankenhausinfektionen ausgegeben. Handelsblatt (German)
Adult Hospital Stays with Infections Due to Medical Care, 2007. Statistical Brief no 94. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality cited by Health Leaders Media and in same media Metro Health deploys 'The Germinator' to fight hospital-acquired infections
Super bug' that's resistant to antibiotics threatens hospital patients. As intravenous antibiotics dripped into his arm, David Carmody seemed to be recovering nicely from a bad bladder infection. But then out of the blue things got worse as he lay in bed at a rehabilitation center: He felt weaker and began suffering uncontrollable diarrhea. Washington Post
IDSA Letter to FDA Concerning Clinical Trial Networks, Trial Designs and Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections Trials 08/26/2010. In a letter to the Director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, IDSA provided input on clinical trial networks and designs of clinical trials for new antimicrobial agents. The letter also gives input on Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections and the design of clinical trials for new antibiotics for these infections. IDSA
Disease outbreak that killed 2 patients is over, hospital says. Nanaimo Regional General Hospital has eliminated the latest outbreak of Clostridium difficile, after nearly five months of battling the infection that colonizes in a person's bowel and causes diarrhea, nausea and fever. The Vancouver Sun
Piden más medidas para el control de antibióticos. Para reducir el grave problema de la resistencia bacteriana a los antibióticos que ya existe en el país se requiere una serie de medidas adicionales al control de la venta de los mismos; entre otras, que todos los hospitales cuenten con laboratorios y unidades de control de uso de esas sustancias, advirtió Guillermo Ruiz Palacios, jefe de Infectología del Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán. La Jornada (Spanish)
Irrational antibiotic use may be 'global problem. When Luluk Lely Soraya's nine-month-old baby developed diarrhea, she panicked and immediately took her child to a pediatrician. Much to her dismay, however, the doctor gave the baby nothing more than oral rehydration therapy. It was not long before she took matters into her own hands and gave her daughter antibiotics, which she believed would kill the virus that made her baby sick. "The diarrhea got even worse," she said on Monday, looking back at the "mistake" she made some six years ago. The Jakarta Post and in same media Antibiotic Overuse leads to resistance and Who's to blame for our antibiotics addiction? and Editorial: National addiction?
WHO urges countries to take measures to combat antimicrobial resistance. Be alert to antimicrobial resistance. WHO
Drugs VS Bugs. "It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body... " Indian Express
Sweden Set to Host Global Conference on Antibiotics. An international conference addressing issues surrounding new antibiotics is set to take place Sept. 6-8 in Sweden at Uppsala University. Organizers say it will be the first-ever global conference on the subject, and one that is long overdue. OHS
Swedish Media
Stort behov av nya läkemedel. Antibiotikaresistensen breder ut sig och människor i utvecklingsländerna kämpar mot infektioner och parasiter. Samtidigt blir en stor del av jordens befolkning allt äldre och fetare. Behovet av nya läkemedel tycks omättligt, men vem ska betala för dem? Naturvetarna
Högt pris för lågt köttpris. Vid köttdisken ställs vi som konsumenter inför en mängd val - ekologiskt, rättvisemärkt, egna märkesvaror, närodlat... Mot bakgrund av den senaste tidens rapportering om dålig djurhållning, smitta och antibiotikaresistens kan man fråga sig om det krävs en märkning med texten Fri från smitta! Det kan bli den drastiska konsekvensen av massmedicinering med antibiotika för att vi ska få billigt kött. Hela Hälsingland