Friday, December 30, 2011

Antibiotic resistance in India high: survey..The Hindu...The GARP-India research estimates that of the approximately 190, 000 neonatal deaths in India each year due to sepsis, a bacterial infection that overwhelms the bloodstream, over 30 per centare attributable to antibiotic resistance. ...
Drug resistant infections kill 60k infants a year..IBNLive.com...Because of antibiotic resistance, nearly 60 thousand of new-born babies are dying every year in India of sepsis, a treatable blood infection, despite getting lifesaving antibiotics. "The organisms in the hospitals have become multi-drug resistant. ...
'100 million Indians could be carrying NDM-1'..Times of India...These include environment pollution by antibiotics such as fluoroquinolones (affecting the DNA of bacteria promoting cross-class antibiotic resistance) which can survive in the environment for months, if not years; the lack of sanitation which is ...
`Some two lakh babies die of infection per year`..Zee News...Experts say the bacterial infection is high due to the presence of hospital-acquired infections (HAI). "It is not a healthy trend to see babies dying due to unconscious antibiotic usage by adults. When we use antibiotics after prescription or proper ...
Superbug preset, but situation not alarming: Govt..Rediff...An NDM-1 study published in Lancet had triggered controversy last year as it claimed that drug-resistant gene had originated in India [ Images ] and was resistant to different classes of antibiotics. The government had protested naming the virus after ...

Friday, October 7, 2011

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

High burden of hospital infections pose a serious threat to the ...India PRwire... India each year due to sepsis - a bacterial infection that overwhelms the bloodstream -, over 30% are attributable to antibiotic resistance.

Hospital-acquired infections high in India: Study...BioScholar News...The report, titled 'Situation Analysis: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in India', said that a large proportion of the hospital acquired infections (HAI) are ...

Japan – nosocomial pseudomonas; headlines in many Japanese papers about a few cases (seemingly 3 – 4) of sepsis by MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa, of which at least two died – Nagasaki-np

Sunday, September 25, 2011

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

Doctors to convince colleagues from prescribing too many antibiotics -Times of India...Using antibiotics too liberally has led to superbugs such as MRSAand NDM-1 becoming resistant to treatment with even the most powerful drugs....

Living with HIV and dying of TB :The Bostwana Gazette....This study isamong the first cohorts of HIV/MDR-TB co-infected patients in India. It was ahighly resistant cohort with previous exposure to second line TB ...

TB on the Rise in Europe: Everything You Need to Know About the ...IB Times-TB is a bacterial infection spread through the inhaling of tiny drops of...Multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) is spreading in particular in China, India,...

Resistant TB of Myanmar migrant costing$10k a month

Ministry ofHealth Opened The 6th Symposium Of Indonesia Antimicrobial Resistance Watch

Bioterror programnixed, measles from Malaysia, global antibiotic-resistance trends

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

Sunday, August 28, 2011

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

Combating MDROs Requires Addressing the Implementation Gap on ...Infection Control Today

Clinicians discovered that Klebsiella was the first bacteria to produce
NDM-1 when a patient who had journeyed from India to England had an
infection that ...
Rebel germs having a field day under the radar in SA-Business Day

"We are like Spain, Greece, India or Brazil — countries where there is enough
money to use expensive antibiotics, but not enough emphasis on infection ...
Drug resistant Pneumonia is leading to increasing incidence of ...India PRwire
Indore, MP, August 8, 2011 /India PRwire/ -- Pediatricians in the city have
cautioned the public against the use of antibiotics without prescription because ...
Ringing the Warning Bell: Colistin-Resistant Klebsiella:Wired News
By Maryn McKenna In all the latest bad news about bacteria becoming highly
resistant — through carbapenem resistance, or the “Indian supergene” NDM-1 ...
When you take antibiotics, sensitive bacteria are killed but resistant ...
People often err by taking them for a common cold, which is a viral infection. ...
Posted On Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 04:02:23 AM: Mumbai Mirror
BAYER : to support WHO and Stop Tuberculosis Partnership in ...4-traders
MDR-TB can result from a primary infection with resistant bacteria or it
may ... Some countries, especially the former Soviet Union, China and India, ...

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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

Thailand is facing a health crisis from antibiotic resistance – figures from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Centre
India – New antibiotics policy can’t curb illegal sale – protests and discussions over the new rules for increased antibiotics restrictiveness – India Today

China – substantial limitations on antibiotic use to be enforced by the Government

India – policy to ban over-the-counter sale of 90 drugs developed, but not yet taken – Times of India

India – campaign for judicious use of antibiotics in Chennai (Madras) is described – The Hindu

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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

Better biosurveillance could halt disease spread. Joined-up approach would have helped in German E. coli outbreak. Gayathri Vaidyanathan

Soon, a test to tell your infection risk!: DailyIndia.com... bacteria in our bodies before an infection takes over. This could potentially prevent the overuse of antibiotics and the development of drug-resistance, ...
Gonorrhea – growing ABR worries CDC; and a cephalosporin-resistant strain found in Japan - SFGate

Southeast Asia – a joint conference on AMR in Bangkok, where ReAct was one of the organizers, resulted in a Regional Plan of Action - ReAct
China has the world’s most serious abuse of antibiotics

Sunday, June 26, 2011

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

Deadly E coli: A worry for India? IBNLive.com......New Delhi: The new mutant strain of the E Coli bacteria has left 36 people dead ... resistant to even high end antibiotics. But is that a worry for India?

Coming to a pharmacy near you? Don't get bugged, get better...The Express Tribune By Mahnoor Sherazee
New antibiotic fished out of sea: Times of India...Others continue to carry the dormant bacteria and are not treated. "For the last 50 years, we have not discovered any new antibiotic to treat TB exclusively
China – forceful measures against overuse of antibiotics: sin hospitals, including lifting the right from the non-compliant doctor to prescribe antibiotics

When business rules our kitchens -by Sunita Narain

AMU lab developed easy method for the detection of multi-drug resistant NDM: India Education Diary..The antibiotic resistance of the NDM1 gene may exponentially accelerate the spread of bacteria that carry it through humans. NDM1 has been detected in bacteria in India, Pakistan, the United States, and the United Kingdom..

Forget radiation, mobiles pose infection risk too: The Mobile Indian...By Anil Satapathy, The Mobile Indian, New Delhi, June 09, 2011 According to a study, mobiles of patients and health care workers are found to carry potentially dangerous bacteria. Mobile phones, which are at the centre of debate for their ...
'New Delhi superbug' remains a global concern: WHO official..Economic Times ......GENEVA: The New Delhi superbug " remains "a global concern" because of its resistance to all available antibiotics in the world, according to a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official. "The 'New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1)' bacteria ...
1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections: Balancing Treatment ... Access and Antibiotic Resistance, to be held at the India Habitat ...

China – Antibiotics assortment in hospital pharmacies reduced from 97 to 50; and this year there are campaigns on all health care levels against misuse/overuse of antibiotics

Monday, June 13, 2011

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

Deadly superbug - is Philippines next? Manila Bulletin
Case of NDM-1 superbug appears to be first acquired within Canada: researchers- The Canadian Press
Cow's milk carries new variant of superbug- Times of India...MRSA infection is caused by a strain of bacteria resistant to antibiotics...
Phillipines- Watsons, Unilab promote antibiotic compliance - There is no known cure for super bacteria infections — prevention is the only ... The very first cases of superbugs with NDM-1 were recorded in New Delhi, India. ... more and more types of bacteria become antibiotic-resistant as well. ...
Antiinfectives and Bacteriophages - ABLE: Association of ...In the wake of emerging antibiotic resistance linked to overuse and abuse of ... If we look back in time, bacterial infection has been a problem to the human ... C' of the Indian Drugs and Cosmetics Act is an advantage to Indian Biotech ...
RSS Journal: New strain of MRSA discovered: Antibiotic resistant ...Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Indian public water supply ... New antibiotics against resistant bacterial infections discovered ...
South Korea banned antibiotics in animal feed - Five years after the European Union banned antibiotics in animal feed, South Korea is about to become the first Asian country to embrace such a restriction...Beginning in July, South Korea is promising to strictly enforce a..
Side Effects of Antibiotics in Urdu- Pakistan

Saturday, June 4, 2011

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

India – action against animal AB use; the animal welfare group ”Humane Society International” has urged the Indian government to ban the non-therapeutic or unnecessary use of antibiotics on farm animals ....Call to ban unnecessary use of antibiotics on farm animals- The Hindu

Indian wild plants explored as source of new antibiotics-eMaxHealth...Scientists from Rohtak, India studied 40 patients, 35 of whom had low ...developed to fight bacteria that are becoming increasing resistant to antibiotics. ...
Canadian who's never been to India has superbug ..who first reported on the existence of.... E. coli cucumber blame brings loss to Spanish agriculture ...Economic Times

Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan ... Enterobacteriaceae, most notably Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, are among the most important causes of serious nosocomial and ...

China helps unravel new E.coli for embattled Europe ...Researchers with BGI-Shenzhen in China and the University Medical Center ... showed that this deadly bacterium carries several antibiotic resistance genes, ...

Thursday, May 12, 2011

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

China – treatment of pneumococcal meningitis harder due to AB resistance and therefore the importance of prevention (vaccination) is increasing – gmw.com
A Growing Risk for Prostate Biopsies: Potentially Deadly Infection- Wall Street Journal-... resulting in infection by antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria such as E. coli. ... Costello tells BN that men who have traveled to India,China and ...
India – NDM-1 presence confirmed by Indian study; of 3 172 blood and urine samples taken at Sassoon General Hospital, in Pune, 20 were found to have bacteria carrying the NDM-1 gene - MidDay

'Millions of superbugs present in environment'-Times of India- Besides, 181 were found resistant to the highest level of antibiotics, ...The bacteria occasionally cause infection when sterilisation procedures in...
Spurt in Pneumonia cases in summer surprises docs- Times of India- In most cases, the lung infection is community-acquired," said Dr Janani... "Fortunetly, we don't have drug-resistant pneumonia. Simple antibiotics can ...

Recall of unregistered pharmaceutical product-7thSpace Interactive- "Supirocin Ointment 2%", manufactured in India, is a topical antibiotic for the treatment of bacterial skin infection. It requires doctor's prescription and ...

After Delhi, NDM-1 superbug found in Pune- IBNLive.com- For example, in the last 25 years only two new classes of antibiotics ...And now even the ICMR is starting its own study on NDM-1 bacteria and drug resistance.

18 babies turn livid after antibiotic injections | Vietnam News ...The government has recently instructed health authorities in the northern province of Thai Nguyen to carry out an investigation into a case ...

Abuse weakens antibiotics in fighting disease- Growing resistance of disease strains to antibiotics has become critical in Southeast Asia, ... Spillover of fighting in Burma kills one Thai - reports ... News stories and images are owned by their respective source. ...

Malaysian Govt to make sure antibiotics are prescribed in right dosages

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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

Doctors prescribe too quickly- less than 60 seconds is used to prescribe medicines and explaining the regimen to the patient in developing countries – Times of India

The superbug effect - The Hindu - The drug-resistant gene has been found even in pathogenic bacteria that ...a national surveillance system for measuring antibiotic resistance if it is...
Combating meningitis - Express Buzz - Bacterial meningitis is a far more serious infection that can cause ...Strain '19 A' is increasingly becoming resistant to commonly used antibiotics. ...
Controversy over Delhi superbug returns to haunt medical tourism ...IMTJ - A Cardiff University-led team of scientists discovered new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in India. It is the first time the bacteria ...
Taiwan – high nasal MRSA carriage in children; a study of 6 000 kids showed that 7.8 % carried MRSA in their nostrils
Chemical mechanism behind bugs' antibiotic resistance identified – South Asia News
South Korea has highest antibiotic use worldwide - Asian Scientist News
Pakistan yet to devise national antibiotic policy- Pakistan Today News
Indian NDM-1 discussion, with first denial of the existence of the gene in water supplies, now followed by acceptance and action, is analysed in SciDevNet – the Task Force recently created by the Indian Government is mentioned in IBNLive; the discussion taken further with ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) decided to finance studies of the problem in India – India Today; and an outline of control measures to be taken is found here in IBNLive; and a few lines on the ever ongoing pressure in the hospitals, that usually never make the press, but here in Times of India; and a sobering-up attitude is reflected in The Hindu; and on a side track, control of ABs in marine production of e g prawns is discussed in FIS.com