Friday, September 16, 2011

Indo-Asian scenario of microbes, infections, antibiotics and resistance - By Dr. A. J. Tamhankar (Research Associate: Sandeep Nerkar)

China's Existing System Of Reserves Is Failing To Conserve Wild Plants That Could Be Valuable Future Sources Of Food And Medicine
Nanotechnology-enhanced curcumin: Symbiosis of ancient wisdom with ...Nanowerk LLC 
It has a long history of usage in traditional medicine in India and China...... as they exhibit enhanced antibacterial/anti-infection properties. ...
Living With HIV And Dying Of TB - Daijiworld.com 
India is home to 2.5 million people living with HIV and bears one fourth of the estimated global burden of MDR-TB. Infection with HIV further complicates ...
A shout-out for throat care- Hindu Business Line 
It could be a cold or the flu setting in, a viral or bacterial infection,... Many Indian and Western doctors recommend garlic as a natural antibiotic. ...
Unravelling Of NDM-1 Structure Signals Breakthrough In Fight ...Medical News Today 
Drug resistance in infectious bacteria is on the rise, posing a serious ...year over 25000 people die in Europe because of antibiotic resistant infections. ...

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Indo-Asian scenario of microbes, infections, antibiotics and resistance - By Dr. A. J. Tamhankar


Need to address growing antibiotic resistance in India - The Hindu ........People living in developing countries including India have the highest burden of bacterial infections, including antibiotic-resistant infections driven by  excessive ...
Cow bacteria strain may pose health hazard in India - Daily News & Analysis ......Parthi Bhatol, chairman, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, which markets Amul products across India, said: “I haven't heard of any such unidentified bacteria that are resistant to any form of antibiotics. If such bacteria are found, ...
Cost of Compassion: Drug Resistance in Military Hospitals - Wired News ......Of note, 58 percent of the resistant bacteria recovered from the Afghan patients was found within 48 hours of their admission to the hospital, meaning that they acquired the infection on the outside, before they were 
admitted. In addition to surveying ...
Gangetic delta origin of deadly cholera strain - Times of India ........El Tor strain first became resistant to antibiotics in 1982, by acquiring the genetic region SXT, which entered the bacterium's genome at that time, triggering renewed global transmission from the original source. Cholera, a 
diarrhoeal infection linked ...
Cholera pandemic's source discovered - EurekAlert (press release) ........"These findings are opening up new pathways for researchers studying all fields of bacterial infection: from investigating how genetic changes enable strains to build up resistance to antibiotics, to being able to track a disease's transmission and ...

Southeast Asia to combat drug resistance - Times of India .......The declaration lays emphasis on developing national antibiotic policies, to regulate the use of antimicrobial agents 

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Indo-Asian scenario of microbes, infections, antibiotics and resistance - By Dr. A. J. Tamhankar

On behalf of and with encouragement from IIMAR, Mohini Adke, Assistant Professor, KTHM college, Nashik, Maharashtra, India has started the cause - STOP- Antibiotic Resistance on `facebook`. Please join the cause
http://www.causes.com/causes/search?q=stop+antibiotic+resistance