‘Colistin now has to be used routinely’- ‘poor sanitation necessitates antibiotics’; calls for government control over high-end antibiotics – Times of India
“Task Force for Antibiotic Stewardship Kolkata” develop Antibiotic
resistance software to guide therapy, and have high hopes forit helping to improve empiric therapy – Times of India
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) ’has signed an agreement with Astra-Zeneca to develop new drugs to treat Gram-negative infections’ - Channelnewsasia
Vietnam – “Antibiotic Resistance and Stewardship in Asia”; VINARES meeting held in Hanoi recently - ReAct
India - high levels of MDR in bacteria in waste water treatment plants processing waste-water from bulk-drug production facilities; also, extraordinary levels of integrons – PLOS ONE
Swatting superbugs Indian
Express.....A patient infected with an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria does not respond to antibiotic ...India, China, and Russia are most affected by MDR-TB cases.
Superbug ate my arm: Woman's
terrifying encounter with flesh ...The Australian.....The patient's only hope against this wildly aggressive bacterial infection ... This is already the case in India where antibiotics have been sold over the counter for ... The rush of antibiotics that kept treatment ahead of resistance has slowed to a ...
Doctors alarmed as antibiotics lose
efficacy Times of India......The bacterial disease burden in India is among the highest in the world. Also, a significantly large population is at risk of secondary infections through ... Antibiotic resistance is a resistance of bacteria,such as E. coli which causes ...
Ramanan Laxminarayan: The Global Reach
of ResistanceFRONTLINE....Because of these drugs, we don't die of infection diseases. ... And over time, the entire population of bacteria in the environment, in our bodies, are... They're more likely to die, and in poor countries like India and Sub-Saharan Africa, .... Second,it conferred resistance to nearly all the important antibiotics wehad against ...