Sustained rise in antimicrobial resistance in India: ICMR study
2 years, 3 months ago

Sustained rise in antimicrobial resistance in India: ICMR study

The Hindu  

A big chunk of patients in India may no longer benefit from carbapenem, a powerful antibiotic administered mainly in ICU settings to treat pneumonia and septicemia, as they have developed antimicrobial resistance to it, an ICMR study has found. The data analysis done between January 1 and December 31, 2021, pointed towards a sustained increase in drug-resistant pathogens, resulting in difficulty to treat certain infections with available medicines, senior Indian Council of Medical Research scientist Dr. Kamini Walia, who led the study, said. The resistance to broad-spectrum antibiotic carbapenem with respect to infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria was recorded in 87.5% of the patients who were part of the study, limiting the availability of treatment options, the ICMR report said. "The ICMR AMR network has developed this over the last few years and now many labs are reporting antifungal susceptibility rates giving an idea on antifungal resistance rates.

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Time to step up the fight against AMR
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Time to step up the fight against AMR

Hindustan Times  

Invisible yet rampant, antimicrobial resistance is responsible for five million deaths worldwide each year, surpassing both HIV/AIDS and malaria in terms of mortality rates. The recently concluded United Nations General Assembly special session on AMR, set an ambitious target of 70% antibiotic use belonging to the WHO ‘access’ groups with low adverse effects and potential to cause AMR. Collaborative efforts …

How antimicrobial resistance is a silent pandemic
3 weeks, 1 day ago

How antimicrobial resistance is a silent pandemic

Firstpost  

India, with its scientific expertise, vibrant civil society, and rich tradition of public health innovation, can lead the global fight against antibiotic resistance. In 2017, the World Bank estimated that by 2050, unchecked AMR could wipe away 3.8 per cent of global gross domestic product each year and push 2.8 crore people into poverty. Losses resulting from the impact of …

Survey confirms rampant misuse of over-the-counter antibiotics in Mumbai
1 month ago

Survey confirms rampant misuse of over-the-counter antibiotics in Mumbai

India Today  

Most people in Mumbai hardly consult a doctor before buying an antibiotic, according to a recent survey by Fortis Hospitals. Speaking to IndiaToday.in, Dr Farah Ingale, Director-Internal Medicine, Fortis Hiranandani Hospital Vashi, said that most people end up buying antibiotics without consulting the doctor because they are easily accessible. Dr Kirti Sabnis, an Infectious Disease Specialist at Fortis Kalyan, warned …

ICMR report highlights ‘antibiotic resistance’ to UTIs, Typhoid, and Pneumonia
3 months ago

ICMR report highlights ‘antibiotic resistance’ to UTIs, Typhoid, and Pneumonia

Hindustan Times  

A recent report by the Indian Council of Medical Research said that diseases like urinary tract infections, blood infections, pneumonia, and typhoid have developed resistance to commonly used antibiotics, making treatment more difficult. The Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Surveillance Network 2023 annual report findings show a worrying increase in antibiotic resistance nationwide. The ICMR’s Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Surveillance Network …

The looming threat of antimicrobial resistance
1 year ago

The looming threat of antimicrobial resistance

Hindustan Times  

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to global public health as disease-causing germs develop resistance to life-saving antibiotics. As per a Lancet study, in 2019, five million human deaths were associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance worldwide, including nearly 1.3 million human deaths attributable to bacterial AMR. The theme for WAAW 2023 was ‘Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together’, which underscored the need …

Antibiotic resistance a looming, lethal global threat
1 year, 1 month ago

Antibiotic resistance a looming, lethal global threat

Hindustan Times  

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria threaten our health, and yet only a few pharmaceutical companies are still conducting research into new antibiotic drugs to bring them to market. Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, known as MRSA, are particularly difficult to treat The independent, nonprofit organization has said drug resistance is a major threat, and has called for more research into new …

Antimicrobial resistance a significant threat to global public health: WHO
1 year, 1 month ago

Antimicrobial resistance a significant threat to global public health: WHO

The Hindu  

The South-East Asia regional office of the World Health Organization warned that antimicrobial resistance is directly responsible for approximately 1.27 million deaths annually across the world, with current estimates placing the number of casualties in South Asia at 3,89 000. “By 2050, according to a report by the World Bank, antimicrobial resistance will be responsible for a decrease of up …

Indonesia’s low-cost watch on antimicrobial resistance
1 year, 3 months ago

Indonesia’s low-cost watch on antimicrobial resistance

The Hindu  

Indonesian researchers have tested a cheaper way of monitoring antimicrobial resistance that could be a key tool for developing countries. Indonesian researchers have tested a cost-effective, relatively quick method of measuring changes in antimicrobial resistance that could help developing countries fight a problem seen as a global threat. Instead of sticking to an approach that emphasises the need for intensive …

A potential solution from Bengaluru for life-threatening infections
1 year, 3 months ago

A potential solution from Bengaluru for life-threatening infections

The Hindu  

World War 1 resulted in the death of about 10 million soldiers. Experts have cited poor public health infrastructure, a high density of population and high disease burden, unregulated sales of drugs, lack of personal hygiene, poor practices in hospitals, and improper disposal of waste by antibiotic manufacturers resulting in it reaching the water streams and making its way through …

Putting minds and funds together to find ways of tackling drug resistance
1 year, 5 months ago

Putting minds and funds together to find ways of tackling drug resistance

The Hindu  

Recently, in a hospital in the Indian city of Hyderabad, a patient in the ICU was realy ill with an extensive drug resistant bacterial infection. Abdul Ghafur, infectious diseases specialist, and one of the authors of the Chennai Declaration, a joint medical community effort to handle antimicrobial resistance in the country, says the precedent set by the COVID-19 pandemic and …

A manifesto for tackling the silent pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance
1 year, 10 months ago

A manifesto for tackling the silent pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance

The Hindu  

While the world is emerging from the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the very harmful but invisible pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance is unfortunately here to stay. India and the Muscat conference As the current G-20 president, and as a country vulnerable to this silent pandemic, India’s role is critical in ensuring that AMR remains high on the global public …

Learning to use antimicrobials responsibly
1 year, 11 months ago

Learning to use antimicrobials responsibly

Hindustan Times  

Antibiotic resistance that first appeared in hospitals in the 1950s is now a global public health challenge. Overlooking this behaviour of excessive use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials from the Watch and Reserve group by physicians does not portend well for the times to come and may have severe consequences for the treatment of drug-resistant infections in Indian patients and associated morbidity …

ICMR issues new guidelines; advices against use of antibiotics for low-grade fever, viral bronchitis
2 years ago

ICMR issues new guidelines; advices against use of antibiotics for low-grade fever, viral bronchitis

India TV News  

The Indian Council of Medical Research has issued guidelines warning against the use of antibiotics for conditions such as low-grade fever and viral bronchitis while advising doctors to follow a timeline while prescribing them. Resistance to Imipenem, which is used to treat infections caused by E coli bacteria, increased from 14 per cent in 2016 to 36 per cent in …

Combatting the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance
2 years, 1 month ago

Combatting the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance

Hindustan Times  

During the past eight decades, millions of lives have been saved by treating infectious diseases with antimicrobial agents – commonly also called antibiotics and ‘magic bullets’. India’s National Action Plan on AMR provided the framework for an effective and collaborative response to AMR in the country. During 2017-21, India’s AMR containment activities were to be guided by its first National …

Study Finds 38% ICU Patients with Superbug Infections Die in 2 Weeks. Why Is This Worrying?
2 years, 3 months ago

Study Finds 38% ICU Patients with Superbug Infections Die in 2 Weeks. Why Is This Worrying?

News 18  

A recent study on hospital-acquired infections has revealed a widespread presence of superbugs, or drug-resistant micro-organisms, in infection cases. The newly-formed Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance-India, a central government effort between All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi, the Indian Council for Medical Research, and the CDC, has found that superbugs were found in 3,080 blood samples and another 792 urine …

Antimicrobial Resistance On the Rise in India, Immediate Corrective Measures Needed: ICMR Study
2 years, 3 months ago

Antimicrobial Resistance On the Rise in India, Immediate Corrective Measures Needed: ICMR Study

News 18  

A big chunk of patients in India may no longer benefit from carbapenem, a powerful antibiotic administered mainly in ICU settings for the treatment of pneumonia and septicemia, as they have developed antimicrobial resistance to it, an ICMR study has found. According to the ICMR report, resistance to Imipenem, which is used to treat infections caused by bacteria E coli, …

Antimicrobial resistance a major concern, say docs
2 years, 5 months ago

Antimicrobial resistance a major concern, say docs

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Doctors in the city have expressed serious concern over the growth in antimicrobial resistance and the risks connected with it for various reasons despite a study showing antimicrobial resistance contributed to 12.7 lakh fatalities in 2019. Speaking on the findings of a study titled ‘Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: A systematic analysis’, published in The Lancet …

High antibiotic use could lead to drug resistance: study
2 years, 5 months ago

High antibiotic use could lead to drug resistance: study

The Hindu  

The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics that act against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria is high in India, a research study has found. It investigated antibiotics use in India using the World Health Organisation’s Access, Watch, and Reserve classification of antibiotics and defined daily dose matrices. The study found a high volume of inappropriate use of antibiotics, including high use …

Why India should support antibiotics development
2 years, 5 months ago

Why India should support antibiotics development

The Hindu  

Antimicrobial resistance is a looming public health crisis impacting every country globally with a disproportionate impact on lives and livelihood in low and middle-income countries. A recent report from the Global Research on AntiMicrobial resistance project found that in 2019, an estimated 4.95 million people suffered from at least one drug-resistant infection and AMR directly caused 1.27 million deaths. To …

Typhoid-causing bacteria have become increasingly antibiotic resistant – study
2 years, 6 months ago

Typhoid-causing bacteria have become increasingly antibiotic resistant – study

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The largest genome analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi also reveals that resistant strains – …

How can India deal with the challenge of anti-microbial resistance? An expert speaks
2 years, 6 months ago

How can India deal with the challenge of anti-microbial resistance? An expert speaks

The Hindu  

Antimicrobial resistance was directly responsible for as many as 1.27 million deaths globally in 2019, according to a publication in the medical journal The Lancet that came out in January. The World Health Organisation defines antimicrobial resistance as “when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing …

antimicrobial resistance
2 years, 10 months ago

antimicrobial resistance

The Hindu  

Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators, “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis”, The Lancet, January 19, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-673602724-0. Arguably the first such comprehensive study on AMR globally, the paper authored by Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators states that AMR is a leading cause of death around the world, with the highest number of deaths occurring in low-resource settings. “Understanding the …

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs caused 1.2 million deaths in a year, study finds
2 years, 10 months ago

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs caused 1.2 million deaths in a year, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Based on the current analysis, researchers said there were an estimated 4.95 million deaths linked …

Explained | The challenge of antimicrobial resistance
2 years, 11 months ago

Explained | The challenge of antimicrobial resistance

The Hindu  

Story so far: Antimicrobial resistance, or antibiotics becoming ineffective because pathogens such as viruses, fungi and bacteria become resistant to them, has long been recognised as a major threat to public health. Lower respiratory-tract infections accounted for more than 1.5 million deaths associated with resistance in 2019, making it the most common infectious syndrome. The data was then broken down, …

Antibiotic resistance caused 1.2 million deaths in 2019: AMR and its link to COVID-19 explained
2 years, 11 months ago

Antibiotic resistance caused 1.2 million deaths in 2019: AMR and its link to COVID-19 explained

Firstpost  

A new study covering 204 countries showed that at least 1.2 million people died in 2019 due to drug-resistant bacterial infections, ahead of both HIV and malaria As the world battles the COVID-19 epidemic, the antimicrobial resistance pandemic looms in the shadows. A recent study covering 204 countries published in The Lancet has found that 1.27 million people died in …

Excess use of antibiotics may cause health crisis in India: Expert
3 years, 4 months ago

Excess use of antibiotics may cause health crisis in India: Expert

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Indiscriminate use of antibiotics during Covid-19 has added to the problem of antimicrobial resistance in the country making it difficult to meet the goals of eradication of tuberculosis by 2025. Experts state that secondary infections due to the indiscriminate use of antibiotics will add to an estimated 10 million deaths. Ganguly, former director-general of Indian Council of Medical Research, …

India Saw 30% Rise in Antibiotic Use in the last Decade
3 years, 10 months ago

India Saw 30% Rise in Antibiotic Use in the last Decade

The Quint  

Although AMR poses an urgent global public health threat, more people in LMICs die from lack of access to antimicrobials than from resistant infections, stressed the report. Global efforts to reduce the inappropriate use of antimicrobials and to mitigate AMR must also increase consistent access to affordable and clinically appropriate antimicrobials. “Increasing antibiotic consumption itself is not a problem; in …

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