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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Alzheimer`s disease and New antibiotics-By A.J. Tamhankar

Scientists from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have revealed that amyloids, known to be responsible for causing Alzheimers disease, have been found to play a critical role in urinary tract infections. Some of the infectious bacteria use amyloids to attach to host cells and to build biofilms, which are bacterial communities bound together in a film that helps resist antibiotics and immune attacks. During the study, the research team altered potential UTI-fighting compounds originally selected for their ability to block bacteria's ability to make amyloids and form biofilms. But when they brought the compounds back to UTI research after the neurology studies, they found the changes had also unexpectedly made them more effective UTI treatments. (From Andhra News)

Indo - Asian Antibiotic News 2009 - Dr.A.J.Tamhankar

Urine test may help diagnose pneumonia early
GE keen to bring quality healthcare to Indian villages

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Indo - Asian Antibiotic News 2009 - Dr.A.J.Tamhankar

-On 8th December, 2009, International aid agency Global Fund announced a $128.5 million grant for India to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Of the grants, $69.4 million will be provided for expanding care and treatment services for tuberculosis (TB), particularly for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. India bears 21 percent of the global TB burden and has the highest estimated incidence of multi-drug resistant cases of any country. $38.1 million will go to malaria prevention and treatment efforts in the seven states in the northeast region - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. This includes efforts to achieve near universal coverage of long-lasting insecticide treated nets by 2015 in these areas. $18.6 million will go to multi-country HIV grant in South Asia for an initiative targeting gays and the transgender community.
-The patent expiries of three blockbuster antibiotics —levofloxacin, moxifloxacin and piperacillin /tazobactam — in the near future may contribute to their cheaper availability in countries like India.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Indo - Asian Antibiotic News 2009 - Dr.A.J.Tamhankar

From the Media
Ayurvedic tradition has it that drinking water on an empty stomach that has been stored overnight in a copper urn keeps illness at bay. A scientific experimentation News in Times of India (December 03, 2009) confirms that Copper keeps superbugs at Bay.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Indo - Asian Antibiotic News 2009 - Dr.A.J.Tamhankar

From the Indian Media
Bacteria living on the surface of the skin help in maintaining its healthy texture, says a new study.-The Hindu
Wipro Technologies has developed a medical gateway solution for remote healthcare management on real-time basis through mobile, broadband and dial-up networks

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Indo - Asian Antibiotic News 2009 - Dr.A.J.Tamhankar

Media News :
Pakistan – ABR; ”irrational use of antibiotics has eliminated the good bacteria and encouraged bad, resistant bacteria” it was said during a large Medical Conference
Overuse of antibiotics can make you drug resistant: Experts - Times of India
Cough into your mobile phone for instant diagnosis - A news item in Times of India

Computerised alerts can curb prescription of costly drugs
Faulty immune memory can trigger cold sores, cancer
Laugh your way to good health
President of India launches Gateway Portal to connect with rural poor

From Journals :

In vitro activity of daptomycin against Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates associated with skin and soft tissue infections: first results from India.
Vancomycin resistant Enterococci in a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai.
Anti-microbial resistance stratified by risk factor among Escherichia coli strains isolated from the urinary tract at a rural clinic in Central India.
Emergence of high levels of extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase-producing gram-negative bacilli in the Asia-Pacific region: data from the Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART) program, 2007.
Evaluation of two human immunodeficiency virus-1 genotyping systems: ViroSeq 2.0 and an in-house method.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae carrying multiple metallo-beta-lactamase genes.
High levels of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in new and treatment-failure patients from the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in an urban metropolis (Mumbai) in Western India.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Indian Antibiotic Resistance Scenario - 2009 (by A.J. Tamhankar)

Media News:

Indian researchers get Bill and Melinda Gates grants - (One project - hand-held electronic nose which can ’smell’ tuberculosis.)

Doctors call for more investment in public health

Eat right, nurture good bacteria in your gut

Child groups to observe Nov 2 as World Pneumonia Day

Doctors least likely to wash hands: Study

Scientific Journals ........Human - 2009

Assessing clonality of Vibrio cholerae strains isolated during four consecutive years (2004 - 2007) in Iran.

Recent experience with fungaemia: change in species distribution and azole resistance.

Multidrug resistant enteroaggregative Escherichia coli diarrhoea in rural southern Indian population.

Re-emerging chloramphenicol sensitivity and emerging low level ciprofloxacin resistance among Salmonella enterica serotype typhi isolates in North India.

Detection of virulence genes in Vibrio cholerae isolated from aquatic environment in Kerala, Southern India.

Increasing invasive disease due to penicillin resistant S. pneumoniae in India.

Penicillin-resistant viridans group streptococci from blood cultures of infective endocarditis patients in South India.

Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates producing VEB-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in the United Kingdom.

Determination of antimicrobial resistance and virulence gene signatures in surface water isolates of Escherichia coli.

Antibiotic prescribing practices in primary and secondary health care facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Prevalence of extended spectrum beta-lactamases producing clinical isolates from patients of urinary tract infection in a tertiary care hospital in Delhi.

Paediatric tuberculosis and DOTS strategy under RNTCP.

Emerging Gram-negative antibiotic resistance: daunting challenges, declining sensitivities, and dire consequences.

The cost-effectiveness of typhoid Vi vaccination programs: calculations for four urban sites in four Asian countries.

Class 1 integrons and SXT elements conferring multidrug resistance in Vibrio cholerae O1 strains associated with a recent large cholera outbreak in Orissa, Eastern India.

Multidrug-resistant to extensively drug resistant tuberculosis: what is next?

Emerging antibiotic resistance in bacteria with special reference to India.

Emerging and re-emerging bacterial diseases in India.

HIV and tuberculosis in India.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Indian Antibiotic Resistance Scenario - 2009 (by A.J. Tamhankar)

Scientific Journals------Human-2009

Diversity of arsenate reductase genes (arsC Genes) from arsenic-resistant environmental isolates of E. coli.
Increasing rates and clinical consequences of nalidixic acid-resistant isolates causing enteric fever in returned travellers: an 18-year experience.

Evaluation of two human immunodeficiency virus-1 genotyping systems: ViroSeq 2.0 and an in-house method.

Low frequency of moaA3 gene among the clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry--south eastern coastal states of India.

Enterococci in river Ganga surface waters: propensity of species distribution, dissemination of antimicrobial-resistance and virulence-markers among species along landscape.

Clustering analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates in Korea by PFGE, ribotying, and phage typing.

Ciprofloxacin breakpoints in enteric fever: time to revise our susceptibility criteria.

Drug resistant mutations detected by genotypic drug resistance testing in patients failing therapy in clade C HIV-1 infected individuals from India.

Molecular characteristics of travel-related extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolates from the Calgary Health Region.

Risk factors for antibiotic-resistant E. coli in children in a rural area.

Analysis of antimicrobial resistance and plasmid profiles in Salmonella serovars associated with tropical seafood of India.

In vitro drug resistance and response to therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis patients under a DOTS programme in south India.

Role of embCAB gene mutations in ethambutol resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from India.

Outbreak of meningococcal disease in and around New Delhi, India, 2005-2006: a report from a tertiary care hospital.

Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from tuberculosis patients in Kerala, India.

Phenotypic and genotypic assays for detecting the prevalence of metallo-beta-lactamases in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii from a South Indian tertiary care hospital.

Carbapenem resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from India: evidence for nationwide endemicity of multiple metallo-beta-lactamase clones (VIM-2, -5, -6, and -11 and the newly characterized VIM-18).

Surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

In vitro activity of gentamicin and amikacin against Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi: a search for a treatment regimen for typhoid fever.

High-level aminoglycoside resistance and beta-lactamase production in enterococci at a tertiary care hospital in India.

Surface water of a perennial river exhibits multi-antimicrobial resistant shiga toxin and enterotoxin producing Escherichia coli.

Outbreaks caused by new variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, India.

XDR Tuberculosis: a report from the New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre, India.

Molecular characterization of Vibrio cholerae isolates from cholera outbreaks in North India.

Activity of antibiotics against Fusarium and Aspergillus.

Self-purificatory Ganga water facilitates death of pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7.

An increase in enteric fever cases due to Salmonella Paratyphi A in & around Chandigarh.

Gradual filling up of TB drug pipeline: how can we play our role better?

Increasing incidence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mumbai, India.

Acquired drug resistance pattern in tuberculosis cases at the State Tuberculosis Centre, Delhi, India.

Molecular epidemiological characteristics of Shigella spp. isolated from river Narmada during 2005-2006.

HIV-1 with predicted CXCR4 genotype identified in clade C from India.

A prospective, descriptive study to identify the microbiological profile of chronic wounds in outpatients.

In-depth molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from New Delhi--predominance of drug resistant isolates of the 'modern' (TbD1) type.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Indian Antibiotic Resistance Scenario - 2009 (by A.J. Tamhankar)

Media News - - How do bacteria subvert healthy cells?
Scientific Journals------Human-2009
Magnitude of drug resistant Shigellosis: a report from Bangalore.
Antimicrobial resistance and in vitro gene transfer in bacteria isolated from the ulcers of EUS-affected fish in India.
The role of a novel efflux pump AbeS, member of the SMR family of transporters in resistance to antimicrobial agents in Acinetobacter baumannii.
Characterization of a New Metallo-{beta}-lactamase gene, blaNDM-1, and a novel erythromycin esterase gene carried on a unique genetic structure in Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 14 from India.
Codon usage and gene expression pattern of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia R551-3 for pathogenic mode of living.
Development of a phosphomannose isomerase-based Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.).
Isolation and sequence analysis of a small cryptic plasmid pRK10 from a corrosion inhibitor degrading strain Serratia marcescens ACE2.
Evolution of antimicrobial resistance in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli causing traveller's diarrhoea.
Role of persisters and small-colony variants in antibiotic resistance of planktonic and biofilm-associated Staphylococcus aureus: an in vitro study.
Antifungal activity of Glycyrrhiza glabra extracts and its active constituent glabridin.
On the potential of Tephrosia purpurea as anti-Helicobacter pylori agent.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Indo-Asian Antibiotic Resistance Scenario - 2009 (by A.J. Tamhankar)

Media News------WHO raises swine flu alert to phase 5 - Pandemic imminent --- ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SWINE-FLU -- Universal flu vaccine edging closer to reality.---India reviews preparations to tackle swine flu.---Hospital-acquired infections on the rise. -----Super-Strong Paint Kills Superbugs. -----Ex-USSR nations, China on brink of a TB epidemic.-----New drugs could counter antibiotic-resistant infections. -----Mobile phones carriers of deadly 'superbug'.

From the Scientific Journals------Human-2009.

-Inducible clindamycin resistance among clinical isolates of Staphylococci will help in guiding therapy- ----A simple broth-disk method to determine the MIC of ceftriaxone on Salmonella enterica serovar typhi ----- Application of 16S rDNA based seminested PCR for diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis.-- -------- mutations and rpsL gene with streptomycin resistance in isolates of M. tuberculosis in India---------

-Minimum inhibitory concentration of carbapenems and tigecycline against Salmonella spp.

-Application of 16S rDNA based seminested PCR for diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis.

-Association of mutations in rpsL gene with high degree of streptomycin resistance in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in India.

-Malaria - Change in therapeutic policy.

-Role of acute viral hepatitis as a confounding factor inantituberculosis treatment induced hepatotoxicity.

-Surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

-Newer strategies for the kala-azar elimination programme in India.

-Antibiotic resistance in acne.

-Structural and functional divergence among seven WhiB proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

-Antibiotic use, environment and antibiotic resistance: A qualitative study in India.

-A Case of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Treated with a Bench to Bedside Approach.

-Acquired drug resistance pattern in tuberculosis cases at the State Tuberculosis Centre, Delhi, India.

-Assessing clonality of Vibrio cholerae strains isolated during four consecutive years (2004 - 2007) in Iran.

-Increasing incidence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mumbai, India.

-Re-emerging chloramphenicol sensitivity and emerging low level ciprofloxacin resistance among Salmonella enterica serotype typhi isolates in North India.

-Antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli (EPEC) clinical isolates.

-Antimycobacterial activity of novel N-(substituted)-2-isonicotinoylhydrazinocarbothioamide endowed with high activity towards isoniazid resistant tuberculosis.

-Antimycobacterial activities of novel fluoroquinolones.

-Comparison of cefoxitin disc diffusion test, oxacillin screen agar, and PCR for mecA gene for detection of MRSA.

-Rapid speciation of 15 clinically relevant mycobacteria with simultaneous detection of resistance to rifampin, isoniazid, and streptomycin in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

-A prospective, descriptive study to identify the microbiological profile of chronic wounds in outpatients.

-Role of embCAB gene mutations in ethambutol resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from India.
-Increasing isolations of Neisseria meningitides serogroup A from blood and cerebrospinal fluid in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1999-2006.
-Drug resistance and genotypic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Thai tuberculosis patients.
-Clostridium difficile infections in a Shanghai hospital: antimicrobial resistance, toxin profiles and ribotypes.
-Decreasing prevalence of levofloxacin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Hong Kong, 2001 to 2007.
-TR-700 in vitro activity against and resistance mutation frequencies among Gram-positive pathogens.
-In Vitro Susceptibilities of Aerobic and Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-Negative Bacilli Isolated from Patients with Intra-Abdominal Infections Worldwide: 2005 Results from Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART).
-Causative agent distribution and antibiotic therapy assessment among adult patients with community acquired pneumonia in Chinese urban population.
-Neonatal infections in Asia.
-Surveillance for invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae disease among hospitalized children in Bangladesh: antimicrobial susceptibility and serotype distribution.
-Invasive pneumococcal disease in Kanti Children's Hospital, Nepal, as observed by the South Asian Pneumococcal Alliance network.
-The expanding spectrum of disease due to salmonella: an international perspective.
-Antibacterial activity of telithromycin and comparators against pathogens isolated from patients with community-acquired respiratory tract infections: the Prospective Resistant Organism Tracking and Epidemiology for the Ketolide Telithromycin study year 5 (2003-2004). -Attributable mortality of imipenem-resistant nosocomial Acinetobacter baumannii bloodstream infection.
-Variation in Salmonella enterica serovar typhi IncHI1 plasmids during the global spread of resistant typhoid fever.
-Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi in seven Asian countries.
-Comparative in vitro activity of tigecycline and other antimicrobials against Gram-negative and Gram-positive organisms collected from the Asia-Pacific Rim as part of the Tigecycline Evaluation and Surveillance Trial (TEST).
-Detection and genetic characterisation of qnrB in hospital isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in Singapore.
-Constitutive and inducible clindamycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and their association with meticillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA): experience from a tertiary care hospital in Nepal.
-Application of denaturing HPLC to rapidly identify rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in low- and high-prevalence areas.
-Molecular characterization and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella isolates from infections in humans in Henan Province, China.
-Antibiotic use in pulmonology wards of Chinese children's hospitals: 2002-2006.
-Staphylococcus aureus disease and drug resistance in resource-limited countries in south and east Asia.
-Genetics and function of the capsules of Burkholderia pseudomallei and their potential as therapeutic targets.
-Resistance of nasopharyngeal pathogens and antimicrobial prescription rates for children in an area under controlled antimicrobial use.
-Minor contribution of mutations at iniA codon 501 and embC-embA intergenic region in ethambutol-resistant clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Kuwait.
-Antibiotic resistance in China--a major future challenge.
-Plasmid-mediated 16S rRNA methylases in aminoglycoside-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Shanghai, China.
-Impact of enhanced infection control at 2 neonatal intensive care units in the Philippines.
-Campylobacter jejuni peritonitis and bacteremia in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
-Community-acquired urinary tract infections in Southern Turkey: etiology and antimicrobial resistance.
-How to handle a CA-MRSA outbreak.
-Nasopharyngeal carriage and antibiotic resistance of Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Moraxella catarrhalis in healthy school children in Turkey.
-Trends in antimicrobial resistance of fecal Shigella and Salmonella isolates in Tehran, Iran.
-Nosocomial outbreak of infection with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a medical center in Taiwan.
-Daily half-dose linezolid for the treatment of intractable multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
-Characterization of Salmonella enterica isolates from infants and toddlers in Wuhan, China.
-Emergence and widespread dissemination of OXA-23, -24/40 and -58 carbapenemases among Acinetobacter spp. in Asia-Pacific nations: report from the SENTRY Surveillance Program.
-Results of use of WHO Global Salm-Surv external quality assurance system for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Salmonella isolates from 2000 to 2007.
-Results from the ARTEMIS DISK Global Antifungal Surveillance Study, 1997 to 2007: 10.5-year analysis of susceptibilities of noncandidal yeast species to fluconazole and voriconazole determined by CLSI standardized disk diffusion testing.
-Ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar typhi from Kuwait with novel mutations in gyrA and parC genes.
-Increasing drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a medical center---what about in Taiwan overall?
-Comparison of three different PCR-based methods to predict the penicillin nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from China.
-The therapeutic efficacy of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine against Plasmodium falciparum in Yemen.
-Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections.
-Multidrug resistant gram-negative bacteria in clinical isolates from Karachi.
-In-depth molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from New Delhi--predominance of drug resistant isolates of the 'modern' (TbD1) type.
-Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in a tropical setting: patient outcome and impact of antibiotic resistance.
-Empirical treatment for pediatric urinary tract infection and resistance patterns of uropathogens, in Queen Alia hospital and prince A'Isha military center--Jordan.
-Is standardized treatment appropriate for non-XDR multiple drug resistant tuberculosis cases? A clinical descriptive study.
-Multidrug resistant enteroaggregative Escherichia coli diarrhoea in rural southern Indian population.
-M. tuberculosis Central Asian Strain 1 MDR isolates have more mutations in rpoB and katG genes compared with other genotypes.
-Predominance of CTX-M-15 extended spectrum beta-lactamases in diverse Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae from hospital and community patients in Kuwait.
-Epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt.
-Diversity of carbapenem resistance mechanisms in Acinetobacter baumannii from a Taiwan hospital: spread of plasmid-borne OXA-72 carbapenemase.
-Ertapenem resistance among extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates.
-The epidemiology of gonorrhoea in Norway, 1993-2007: past victories, future challenges.
-Surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
-Prevalence and characteristics of aac(6')-Ib-cr in AmpC-producing Enterobacter cloacae, Citrobacter freundii, and Serratia marcescens: a multicenter study from Korea.
-Epidemiology and susceptibilities of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Taiwan: emphasis on chlorhexidine susceptibility.
-Nationwide surveillance of antimicrobial resistance among non-fermentative Gram-negative bacteria in Intensive Care Units in Taiwan: SMART programme data 2005.
-In vitro activity of tigecycline against colistin-resistant Acinetobacter spp. isolates from Korea.
-Characterisation of genes encoding aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes among meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from two hospitals in Tehran, Iran.
-Susceptibility of Candida albicans to common and novel antifungal drugs, and relationship between the mating type locus and resistance, in Lebanese hospital isolates.
-Epidemiologic characterization of nosocomial Acinetobacter baumannii infections in a Turkish university hospital by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
-Prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants over a 9-year period.
-First report on a hyperepidemic clone of KPC-3-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Israel genetically related to a strain causing outbreaks in the United States.
-Prevalence of primary fluoroquinolone resistance among clinical isolates of Helicobacter pylori at a University Hospital in Southern Taiwan.
-Dual-priming oligonucleotide-based multiplex PCR for the detection of Helicobacter pylori and determination of clarithromycin resistance with gastric biopsy specimens.
-Emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains as a cause of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections in Korea.
-Recovery of both vancomycin-resistant enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from culture of a single clinical specimen from colonized or infected patients.
-Validation of the line-probe assay for rapid detection of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Vietnam.
-Rapid emergence of third generation cephalosporin resistant Shigella spp. in Southern Vietnam.

Non-Human and General-2009.

-Surface water of a perennial river exhibits multi-antimicrobial resistant shiga toxin and enterotoxin producing Escherichia coli.

-Antimicrobial activity of five herbal extracts against multi drug resistant (MDR) strains of bacteria and fungus of clinical origin.

-Evaluation of the activity of 16 medicinal plants against Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

-Self-purificatory Ganga water facilitates death of pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7.

-Activity of antibiotics against Fusarium and Aspergillus.

-Animal models of tuberculosis for vaccine development.

-Molecular epidemiological characteristics of Shigella spp. isolated from river Narmada during 2005-2006.

-Identification of Pasteurella multocida isolates of ruminant origin using polymerase chain reaction and their antibiogram study.

-Phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of antimicrobial resistance in faecal bacteria from 30 Giant pandas.
-Isolation, antimicrobial resistance, and virulence genes of Pasteurella multocida strains from swine in China.
-High prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants qnr, aac(6')-Ib-cr, and qepA among ceftiofur-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates from companion and food-producing animals.
-Identification and characterization of Class 1 integron resistance gene cassettes among Salmonella strains isolated from imported seafood.
-Emergence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance genes in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from chickens in China.
-Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among serotypes of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from cattle and poultry in Japan.
-Bactericidal activity of medicinal plants, employed for the treatment of gastrointestinal ailments, against Helicobacter pylori.
-Analysis of ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella strains from swine, chicken, and their carcasses in Taiwan and detection of parC resistance mutations by a mismatch amplification mutation assay PCR.
-Outbreaks of Shigella sonnei infections in Denmark and Australia linked to consumption of imported raw baby corn.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

GLOBAL ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE INITIATIVE

Resources for the Future, USA, has launched GLOBAL ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE INITIATIVE with focus on five emerging economies – India, China, South Africa, Kenya, and Vietnam http://www.rff.org/News/Press_Releases/Pages/Global_Antibiotic.aspx

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Wake up India
MRSA found in poultry in a study in Belgium /EID/
“US running out of drugs to treat deadly bug”; ChinaView presents an article from L. A. about gram-negative MDR, focusing mostly on Acinetobacter baumannii .. and CNN warning for more resistance among gram-negatives.
CVMP (COMMITTEE FOR MEDICINAL PRODUCTS FOR VETERINARY USE) of EMEA, has produced http://www.emea.europa.eu/pdfs/vet/sagam/8173006enfin.pdf
read the summary on page 23-24
CLSI Publishes Guideline For Analysis And Presentation Of Cumulative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Data Analysis and Presentation of Cumulative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Data; Approved Guideline-Third Edition (M39-A3).
Published online 19 February 2009 Nature doi:10.1038/news.2009.110
Wheat genes could help fight fungal epidemics. As farmers around the world anxiously monitor the march of a deadly orange fungus across their wheat fields, two research groups have reported progress in the battle against the lethal scourge: the cloning of two fungus-fighting genes. This idea could be borrowed for humans- A.J. Tamhankar
Published online 22 February 2009 Nature doi:10.1038/news.2009.116
New antibodies block a range of influenzas. Discovery hints at the possibility of broad-spectrum vaccines. Researchers have identified a group of antibodies that neutralize a wide range of influenza viruses, including the H5N1 avian influenza, the 1918 Spanish flu and some seasonal strains. These molecules may one day be used therapeutically to protect patients against a broad array of strains.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Occurrence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria in hospital associated waters in India

A team of Indian scientists from R.D.Gardi Medical College, Ujjain and a Swedish scientist from Karolinska Institute recently presented preliminary findings of their collaborative study at the National Conference of IPHA, (Bangalore, 9-11 January 2009) and at the IAPSM Conference, (Aurangabad, 21-23 January 2009), in which they reported occurrence of Metronidazole, sulfamethoxazole, ofloxacin, norfloxacin, levofloxacin, tinidazole and ciprofloxacin in the range of 1.4 to 236.00 µg/L in the waste water of two Indian hospitals. E. coli isolates from the hospital waste water samples showed resistance to third generation cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones. The impact of such an occurrence on public health and environment of India needs to be evaluated.
The scientists will soon start communicating their results to Research Journals.

Antibiotics in Pharma waste water

World's highest drug levels entering India stream - Yahoo! News
Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream ... The water in a river in India could be the rain coming down in your town in a news. yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_as/pharmawater_india - 107k
PMO orders testing of Patancheru water
28 Jan 2009, TNN
NEW DELHI: Concerned over reports of water at Patancheru in Medak near Hyderabad containing drug residues that are as high as 150 times the levels
detected in US, PMO has asked for testing of samples and a report on the composition of the pharmaceutical cocktail within a week.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

National conference On Antimicrobial Resistance

Announcement
National conference On Antimicrobial Resiatance: from emerging Threat to Reality.
Dates: 23-25 March 2009.
Venue: Allahabad Agricultural Institute.
website- http://www.aaidu.org/
email: antimicro09@gmail com

Last Date for sending Abstracts: 10th February 2009

Sunday, January 4, 2009

ABR gene in genetically engineered Brinjal

Dear friends
Dr. Mira Shiva informs that
A company in India is developing genetically engineered Brinjal incorporating the Bacillus thuringiesis gene.
The Antibiotic Resistant Marker being used for Bt Brinjal is NEOMYCIN . Horizontal transfer of genes & Genetic pollution & other Public Health Concerns need to be addressed as Biosafety studies done by the Company are inadequate. The GEAC Meets on 14th Jan 09.
All of you need to comment on this proposal in this space so that Dr. Mira Shiva takes it up at the appropriate forum.
Indian Antibiotic Resistance Scenario - 2008 (by A.J. Tamhankar)

From the Scientific Journals

Human-2008.

-Antibiotic resistance calls for better diagnostic labs.
-Antibiotic resistance in pathogens causing urinary tract infections in India.
-Antibiotic resistance pattern of group-a beta-hemolytic streptococci isolated from north Indian children.

-Emerging antibiotic resistance in bacteria with special reference to India.
-Incidence of metallo beta lactamase producing Pseudomonas
aeruginosa in ICU patients.
-Estimation of faecal carriage of Clostridium difficile in patients
with ulcerative colitis using RT-PCR.

-Detection of extended spectrum beta-lactamase from clinical isolates in Davangere.
-A study on nosocomial pathogens in ICU with special reference to multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii harbouring multiple plasmids.
-Enterococcal infections & antimicrobial resistance.
-Changing pattern of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea in a tertiary care hospital: A 5 year retrospective study.
-Antibiotic sensitivity pattern in cases of enteric fever.
-Functional assignment to JEV proteins using SVM.
-High rate of mutation K103N causing resistance to nevirapine.
-Increased prevalence of extended spectrum beta lactamase producers in neonatal septicaemic cases.
-Correlation between biofilm production and multiple drug resistance in imipenem resistant clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii.
-Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates producing VEB-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases.
-Drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis against second-line drugs using the Bactec MGIT 960 System.
-Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 1 from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA252).
-Study of metallo-beta-lactamase production in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
-Occurrence of ESBL & Amp-C b-lactamases & susceptibility to newer antimicrobial agents in complicated UTI.
-Pneumonia in a traveller coming back from Asia.
-Rising prevalence of enteric fever due to multidrug-resistant Salmonella.
-Risk factors for antibiotic-resistant E. coli in children in a rural area.
-Status of high level aminoglycoside resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis.
-Synergy of gatifloxacin with cefoperazone and cefoperazone-sulbactam against resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
-The cost-effectiveness of typhoid Vi vaccination programs.
-The influence of glucose added urine on the in vitro antimicrobial activity of various antibiotics.
-Trend of antibiotic resistance of Vibrio cholerae strains from East Delhi.
-Triple therapy-based targeted nanoparticles for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori.
-Tigecycline in-vitro susceptibility and antibiotics' fitness for gram-negative pathogens.
-Antibiotic resistance pattern of group-a beta-hemolytic streptococci isolated from north Indian children.
-Detection and identification of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
-Changing characteristics of Vibrio cholerae: emergence of multidrug resistance and non-O1, non-O139 serogroups.
-Dental therapeutic systems.
-Incidence of metallo beta lactamase producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in ICU patients.
-Antibiotic prescribing practices in primary and secondary health care facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
-Mycobacterium tuberculosis interactome analysis unravels potential pathways to drug resistance.
-TEM & SHV genes in extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing Klebsiella species beta their antimicrobial resistance pattern.
-TargetTB: a target identification pipeline for Mycobacterium tuberculosis through an interactome, reactome and genome-scale structural analysis.
-Detection of virulence genes in Vibrio cholerae isolated from aquatic environment in Kerala, Southern India.
-Bacterial persistence: some new insights into an old phenomenon.
-Down regulation of gyrase A gene expression in E. coli by antisense ribozymes using RT-PCR.
-Novel mutations in emb B gene of ethambutol resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a preliminary report.
-A potential plasmid-curing agent, 8-epidiosbulbin E acetate, from Dioscorea bulbifera L. against multidrug-resistant bacteria.
-RpoN gene, RAPD profile, antimicrobial resistance and plasmids of Vibrio anguillarum isolates from vibriosis infected Penaeus monodon.
-Novel and potent oxazolidinone antibacterials featuring 3-indolylglyoxamide substituents.
-Enhancement of the efficacy of erythromycin in multiple antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacterial pathogens.
-Zinc and antibiotic resistance: metallo-beta-lactamases and their synthetic analogues.
-Changing trends in bacteriology of peritonsillar abscess.
-Incidence of bacterial enteropathogens among hospitalized diarrhea patients from Orissa, India.
-Moonlighting function of glutamate racemase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: racemization and DNA gyrase inhibition are two independent activities of the enzyme.
-Substituted 3-((Z)-2-(4-nitrophenyl)-2-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl) vinyl)-4H-chromen-4-ones as novel anti-MRSA agents: synthesis, SAR, and in-vitro assessment.
-Antimicrobial stewardship in institutions and office practices.
-Tigecycline: a critical update.
-Cefoxitin disc diffusion test for detection of meticillin-resistant staphylococci.
-In-vitro antimycobacterial drug susceptibility testing of non-tubercular mycobacteria by tetrazolium microplate assay.
-Differential expression of ompC and ompF in multidrug-resistant Shigella dysenteriae and Shigella flexneri by aqueous extract of Aegle marmelos, altering its susceptibility toward beta-lactam antibiotics.
-Comparative bacteriology of acute and chronic dacryocystitis.
-Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: current challenges and threats.
-Prevalence of inducible clindamycin resistance in gram positive organisms in a tertiary care centre.
-Assessment of pheromone response in biofilm forming clinical isolates of high level gentamicin resistant Enterococcus faecalis.
-Incidence of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in diabetes and cancer patients.
-Evaluation of rapid MTT tube method for detection of drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to rifampicin and isoniazid.
-Phenotypic detection of inducible clindamycin resistance among Staphylococcus aureus isolates by using the lower limit of recommended inter-disk distance.
-Prevalence of extended spectrum beta lactamase and AmpC beta lactamase producers among Escherichia coli isolates in a tertiary care hospital in Jaipur.
-Empiric antibiotic therapy in children with community-acquired pneumonia.
-Comparison of the radiometric BACTEC 460 TB culture system and Löwenstein-Jensen medium for the isolation of mycobacteria in cutaneous tuberculosis and their drug susceptibility pattern.
-Molecular cloning, overexpression and biochemical characterization of hypothetical beta-lactamases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv.
-Molecular characterization of multidrug-resistant Shigella species isolated from epidemic and endemic cases of shigellosis in India.
-Epidemiological evidence of multidrug-resistant Shigella sonnei colonization in India by sentinel surveillance in a Japanese quarantine station.
-Aminoglycoside-resistance mechanisms in multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates.
-Antimicrobial resistance pattern of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from peripheral health centres and STD clinic attendees of a tertiary care centre in India.
-Novel structural analogues of piperine as inhibitors of the NorA efflux pump of Staphylococcus aureus.
-Salmonella enterica Serotype typhi in Kuwait and its reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin.
-Synthesis and antimycobacterial activity of 4-[5-(substituted phenyl)-4, 5-dihydro-3-isoxazolyl]-2-methylphenols.
-Observations on carbapenem resistance by minimum inhibitory concentration in nosocomial isolates of Acinetobacter species: an experience at a tertiary care hospital in North India.
-A simple and effective approach for the treatment of chronic wound infections caused by multiple antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli.
-Cefepime and its role in pediatric infections.
-Antimicrobial susceptibility profile of resistance phenotypes of Neisseria gonorrheae in India.

-Stationary phase induced alterations in mycobacterial RNA polymerase assembly: A cue to its phenotypic resistance towards rifampicin.
-Epidemiology, etiology, and diagnosis of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia in Asian countries.
-Involvement of O8-antigen in altering beta-lactam antibiotic susceptibilities in Escherichia coli.
-Prevalent phenotypes and antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae at an Indian tertiary care hospital: plasmid-mediated cefoxitin resistance.
-Cellphones as reservoirs of nosocomial pathogens.
-A case of fatal acute pyogenic meningitis in a neonate caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Salmonella group B.
-Significance of isolation and drug susceptibility testing of non-Candida albicans species causing oropharyngeal candidiasis in HIV patients.
-Small and lethal: searching for new antibacterial compounds with novel modes of action.
-On detection and assessment of statistical significance of Genomic Islands.
-A study of typhoid fever in five Asian countries: disease burden and implications for controls.
-Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains isolated before 1992 from Varanasi, India are multiple drug resistant, contain intSXT, dfr18 and aadA5 genes.
-Emerging resistance to newer antimicrobial agents among Shigella isolated from Finnish foreign travellers.
-Antimicrobial protein from Streptomyces fulvissimus inhibitory to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
-Modified PAP method to detect heteroresistance to vancomycin among methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates at a tertiary care hospital.
-Detection of Enterobacteriaceae producing CTX-M extended spectrum beta-lactamases from a tertiary care hospital in south India.
-Need for national/regional guidelines and policies in India to combat antibiotic resistance.
-ESBLs detection in clinical microbiology: why & how?
-Detection of extended spectrum beta-lactamase production in clinical isolates of Klebsiella spp.
-Detection of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
-Sequence analysis of bla CTX-M-28 , an ESBL responsible for third-generation cephalosporin resistance in Enterobacteriaceae, for the first time in India.
-Spectrum of microbial flora in diabetic foot ulcers.
-Incidence of metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in diabetes and cancer patients.
-Emergence of highly fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in a community-based fever surveillance from Kolkata, India.
-Enteric fever in Mumbai--clinical profile, sensitivity patterns and response to antimicrobials.
-Diarrhoeal outbreak of Vibrio cholerae 01 Inaba in Delhi.
-The role of antibiotic prophylaxis in mesh repair of primary inguinal hernias using prolene hernia system: a randomized prospective double-blind control trial.
-Antimycobacterial activities of novel 2-(sub)-3-fluoro/nitro-5,12-dihydro-5-oxobenzothiazolo[3,2-a]quinoline-6-carboxylic acid.
-Staphylococcus aureus ocular isolates from symptomatic adverse events: antibiotic resistance and similarity of bacteria causing adverse events.
-Quinolone resistance among Shigella spp. isolated from travellers returning from India.
-Pneumocephalus as a complication of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis.
-Occurrence and detection of AmpC beta lactamases among clinical isolates of E. coli and K. pneumoniae causing UTI.
-Low recovery rates of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant enterococci could be attributable to restricted usage of aminoglycosides in Indian settings.
-Stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis in a healthy 2-month-old child.

-Emergence of tetracycline-resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype Inaba, in Kolkata, India.
-Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Neisseria meningitidis--Minnesota and North Dakota, 2007-2008.
-Dissemination of clonally related Escherichia coli strains expressing extended-spectrum beta-lactamase CTX-M-15.
-Metallo beta lactamases in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter species.
-Inhibition of DNA gyrase activity by Mycobacterium smegmatis MurI.
-Role of beta-lactamase inhibitors in enterobacterial isolates producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases.
-High nasopharyngeal carriage of beta-lactamase-negative ampicillin-resistant Haemophilus influenzae in north Indian school-going children.
-The yejABEF operon of Salmonella confers resistance to antimicrobial peptides and contributes to its virulence.
-Pre-admission antibiotics for suspected cases of meningococcal disease.
-Resistance in gram-negative bacilli in a cardiac intensive care unit in India: risk factors and outcome.
-Microbiological profile of donor corneas: a retrospective study from an eye bank in north India.
-Preparation & characterization of solid inclusion complex of cefpodoxime proxetil with beta-cyclodextrin.
-High level ciprofloxacin resistance in Salmonella enterica isolated from blood.
-Changing patterns of Vibrio cholerae in sevagram between 1990 and 2005.
-Piperine analogs as potent Staphylococcus aureus NorA efflux pump inhibitors.
-Rising standards for tuberculosis drug development.
-Transcriptional activation and increased mRNA stability contribute to overexpression of CDR1 in azole-resistant Candida albicans.
-High rate of detection of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant enterococci from urinary tract specimens in South India.

-Metallo beta lactamases in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter species.
-Orthodox and unorthodox clavulanate combinations against extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producers.
-Prevalence and clonality of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in Asia.

Non-Human and General-2008.

-Evaluation of the probiotic characteristics of newly isolated lactic acid bacteria.
-Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli Isolated from Diarrheic Calves in Gujarat,India.
-Detection of conjugative plasmids and antibiotic resistance genes in anthropogenic soils from Germany and India.
-Need for guidelines and policies in India to combat Antibiotic Resistance
-Diversity of root associated microorganisms of selected medicinal plants and influence of rhizomicroorganisms on the antimicrobial property of Coriandrum sativum.
-Multiple antibiotic resistance patterns of rhizospheric bacteria isolated from Phragmites australis.
-Antibiotic use, environment and antibiotic resistance: A qualitative study among human and veterinary health care professionals in Orissa, India.
-Multiple antibiotic resistance patterns of rhizospheric bacteria isolated from Phragmites australis growing in constructed wetland for distillery effluent treatment.
-In vitro activity of eugenol, an active component from Ocimum sanctum, against multiresistant and susceptible strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
-Synergism between natural products and antibiotics against infectious diseases.
-Phosphinothricin resistance in Aspergillus niger and its utility as a selectable transformation marker.
-Utility of lytic bacteriophage in the treatment of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa septicemia in mice.
-Conjugative plasmids in multi-resistant bacterial isolates from Indian soil.
-Selection of genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis upregulated during residence in lungs of infected mice.
-Contamination of potable water distribution systems by multiantimicrobial-resistant enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli.
-Antibacterial activity of some medicinal plant extracts.
-Prevalence and characterization of Salmonella enterica serovar Weltevreden from imported seafood.
-Utilization of Bombyx mori larvae as a surrogate animal model for evaluation of the anti-infective potential of oxazolidinones.