Thursday, May 31, 2012

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


Doctor's Findings Lead to Controversy at Home (Mumbai,India) - OregonLive.com..Beginning in June2000, Kumarasamy, now 36, studied bacteria and went from hospital to hospital in Chennai to collect specimens. He says he witnessed a steady increase in difficult-to-treat infections. Patients were dying, and doctors couldn'tidentify ...
A health crisis blooms, then booms in India -The National....Then her doctor told her mutant germs that most antibiotics cannot kill had entered her bladder, probably from a contaminated hospital catheter in India. She risked alife-threatening infection if the bacteria invaded her bloodstream - waitinggame ...
India Superbug Germs - The Province (blog).....India is a generator of these drug resistant bacteria as it has many sick people to begin with combined with poor sanitation increases the scope of antibacterial resistance. Abdul Ghafur, an infectious diseases doctor in Chennai, used to combat ...
Indian drug-resistant TB cases responding well:-Vaccine News Daily....Five tuberculosis patientsin a Mumbai hospital who are infected with a form ... period of time if the resistant strains of bacteria re-assert themselves.
Weekly digest: Resistance in India's largest city, the evolution of bacterial mutation rates, and antiseptic-resistant ... Crafting a system-wide response to healthcare-associated infections ... The Burden of Antibiotic Resistance in Indian Neonates ... 
”China Takes Aim at Rampant Antibiotic Resistance” -  Sciencemag

Saturday, May 12, 2012

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

Overuse of antibiotics causing resistance that could undermine medical ....The culprit is the wrong use of antibiotics that has allowed certain bacterial infections to ... India and Pakistan, antimicrobial resistance is spread through poor infection ...
Let's Talk Books And Politics: India: Politics, Greed, and the Attack of...The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has become a growing problem.... of the bacterial infections that occurred in Indian hospitals were resistant to ... 
Activists: Casual antibiotic use, inadequate treatment fuel drug-resistant TB ...Washington Post.....India adds an estimated 99000 cases of drug-resistant TB every year, but only a tiny fraction of those infected receive the proper drugs to treat the stubborn disease through the government-funded program. Saturday marks World Tuberculosis Day. 
How bacteria resist 'Trojan horse' antibiotic: Newstrack India.....Washington,March 20 (ANI): Indian origin scientists have discovered the mechanism by which some bacteria evade a potent antibiotic. The researchers found that the bacteria have modified a common "housekeeping" enzyme in a way that enables the enzyme ... 
Regulation is vital to curbing TB in India.....The National....Today is World Tuberculosis Day - a stark reminder of India's struggle to curb thespread of the disease. India is the most infected country in the world with 20 per cent of the known 8.5 million cases. Tuberculosis, caused by a bacteria that mostly ... 

Sunday, May 6, 2012

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