RESISTANCE IN THE NEWS

19 Jan 2012

Resistance in the News is an arbitrary selection of articles with  relevance to antibiotic resistance and antibiotic use that have come to  our attention lately.The articles have been published in various internet media and on-line scientific journals. The list is by no means complete  and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the ReAct network.

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

Proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on serious cross-border threats to health. On 8 December 2011, the European Commission adopted a legal proposal to better protect European citizens from a wide range of serious cross-border health threats. EU Public Health

West Sussex hospitals report victory over superbugs. Hospital bosses are winning the fight against potentially fatal superbugs. Not one patient staying at hospitals in Worthing, Shoreham and Chichester in 2011 developed MRSA. The Argus

New Year Ambitions To Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections. New ambitions have been set for the NHS which build on the progress made on infections last year, Health Minister Simon Burns announced today. eGovmonitor

Save the hospital cause of death of premature baby. Wave of infection hygiene expert: biologist was cheaper than medicine - Insufficient nursing staff. NWZ online

Rules Tighten on Use of Antibiotics on Farms. Clampdown aims to stop spread of drug-resistant microbes. Alarmed at signs that the overuse of antibiotics in farm animals is blunting these key weapons against human disease, governments are taking action. Scientific American

Overtreatment of Enterococcal Bacteriuria. Less is more. Archives of Internal Medicine passed on by Reuters

Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in India. Research article. Clinical Infectious Diseases commented by ECDC and an article on the subject in Times of India

SWEDISH MEDIA

Vill införa anmälningsplikt för resistent bakterie. Spridningen av en särskilt farlig typ av bakterie, resistent mot den kraftfullaste antibiotikan, gör att Socialstyrelsen nu ser över smittskyddslagen. Med exempelvis anmälningsplikt ökar möjligheterna att stoppa smittan. SR Nyheter/Ekot

Patientnära sjukhusstädning hejdar smittspridning. De senare årens utbrott av resistenta bakterier i svensk sjukvård har bekräftat betydelsen av goda städrutiner. En ny översiktsartikel summerar evidens för smittspridningens olika steg, och tydliggör hur en hög städkvalitet kompletterar en god handhygien i kampen mot spridning av patogener. Smittskyddsinstitutet original article in PubMed: Hospital cleaning in the 21st century.

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

Forgotten Antibiotics: An Inventory in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Clin Infect Dis. 2012 Jan;54(2):268-274.

Outcome of carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2012 Jan;18(1):54-60. Epub 2011 Jul 1.

Nosocomial bloodstream infections due to Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacterpittii and Acinetobacternosocomialis in the United States. J Infect. 2011 Dec 20. [Epub ahead of print]

Overtreatment of enterococcal bacteriuria. Arch Intern Med. 2012 Jan 9;172(1):33-8.

Enhancing the safety of hospitalized patients: who is minding the antimicrobials?: comment on "overtreatment of enterococcal bacteriuria". Arch Intern Med. 2012 Jan 9;172(1):38-40.

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): global epidemiology and harmonisation of typing methods. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2012 Jan 7. [Epub ahead of print]

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