Newsweek (December 27)
Potential antibiotics discovered in novel places like seabeds, roundworms or even the nose are bringing “hope to the fight against antimicrobial or antibiotic resistance, the growing ability of infectious and sometimes lethal bacteria to survive drug treatment.”
Tags: Antibiotic resistance, Antibiotics, Antimicrobial, Drug treatment, Infectious, Lethal bacteria, Nose, Potential, Roundworms, Seabeds
The Guardian (November 18)
“Last-line antibiotics against serious pneumonia and bloodstream infections are under real threat in Europe as resistant strains of bacteria emerge…. Particularly worrying is the increase in resistance to antibiotics considered the last line, where there are no new drugs to treat patients with certain serious infections.”
Tags: Antibiotics, Bacteria, Bloodstream, Drugs, Europe, Infections, Last-line, Patients, Pneumonia, Resistance
New York Times (May 11)
“Antibiotics have transformed medicine and saved countless lives over the past seven decades. Now, rampant overuse and the lack of new drugs in the pipeline threatens to undermine their effectiveness.” The last new class of antibiotics emerged in 1987. Today both standard-treatment and last-resort antibiotics often fail due to growing resistance in germs and bacteria.
Tags: Antibiotics, Bacteria, Drugs, Effectiveness, Germs, Lives, Medicine, Overuse, Pipeline, Resistance
