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Apr 27, 2012
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Inadequate FDA Antibiotic Policy Spurs Criticism

By Katharina Schwan
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent recommendations on antimicrobials in animal food production gave rise to a myriad of opinions, ranging from biased opposition to candid...
FDA, antibiotic resistance, cattle
Apr 12, 2012
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Is Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreading?

By Anna Tomasulo
Early this month, two studies were published in Science and The Lancet, each with evidence of artemisinin-resistance along the Thailand-Myanmar border. If this strain of drug resistant malaria...
artemisinin, malaria, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, antibiotic resistance
Feb 9, 2012
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Human vs. Microbe: Looming Resistance in Gonorrhea

By Anna Tomasulo
According to The Bay Area Reporter and to preliminary data from the Department of Public Health’s STD Prevention and Control Section, cases of gonorrhea in San Francisco jumped from 1,943 in 2010...
gonorrhea, antibiotic resistance
Oct 18, 2011
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Superbug spreads and takes root: 9 cases of locally-acquired NDM-1 infection in South Africa

By Glory Song
Nine patients have been infected with the highly antibiotic-resistant, NDM-1 containing bacteria, commonly known as a superbug, at the Life Glynnwood Hospital in Benoni, South Africa. Of these...
superbug, antibiotic resistance, south africa
Oct 12, 2011
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Potential for untreatable gonorrhea?

By Anna Tomasulo
This Monday, 10 Oct. 2011, doctors from the United Kingdom reported that gonorrhea has developed an increased resistance to the antibiotic currently used to treat it. The UK Health Protection...
gonorrhea, antibiotic resistance
Sep 22, 2011
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Drug resistance continued: Malaria

By Anna Tomasulo
Early this morning, the New England Journal of Medicine released a piece warning of potential artemisinin-resistant malaria near the Cambodia-Thailand border.  Artemisinin is a drug used in...
malaria, antibiotic resistance, artemisinin
Aug 23, 2011
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KPC Bacteria Kills 50 in Panama

By Laura Pinheiro
For the last month, Panama’s Social Security Hospital (CSS) is experiencing an outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) infections among its patients. On Tuesday, August 4, six...
antibiotic resistance, hospital, panama
Jul 13, 2011
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Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea Detected

By healthmap
A new gonorrhea “superbug” has hit Japan. This new strain, named H041, is reportedly resistant to all existing antibiotics.  Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease, is not fatal but is is...
gonorrhea, antibiotic resistance
May 6, 2011
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KPC Alert in Uruguay

By healthmap
In the last two months, three Uruguayan patients have died in Montevideo from the now well known antibiotic-resistant bacteria, KPC. Bacteria with the Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases (KPC)...
Uruguay, antibiotic resistance, KPC