RESISTANCE IN THE NEWS

25 January 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

India faces totally drug-resistant TB. India’s central health ministry officials currently studying 12 cases of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) that emerged in a Mumbai hospital say they fall short of being totally drug resistant (TDR-TB). SciDevNet same subject in BBC News

Status for krigsskadede libyske patienter. I løbet af november og december 2011 har Danmark modtaget 48 krigsskadede patienter fra Libyen med henblik på at tilbyde disse patienter specialiserede behandlingsforløb. CEI-NYT nr 120 Januar 2012. Statens Seruminstitut

Five more babies monitored for deadly infection that has killed three children and left three more fighting for life. Three babies have died and three more fighting for life after contracting the bacterial infection pseudomonas. Daily Mail

Mastbetriebe bleiben gesperrt. Bei einer Routinekontrolle entdeckt das bayerische Gesundheitsamt ein verbotenes Antibiotikum im Urin von Schweinen - 25 Mastbetriebe im Allgäu bleiben daraufhin vorerst gesperrt.  (Google Translate - During a routine inspection, the Bavarian health authorities discovered a banned antibiotic in the urine of pigs - 25 fattening farms in the Allgäu then remain closed for now.) Sueddeutsche

When Penicillin Pays: Why China Loves Antibiotics a Little Too Much. Every year when the wet winter weather sweeps through southern Anhui province, Ling Cheng gets a niggling cough that she just can't shake. But instead of heading to the medicine cabinet, Ling, like millions of other Chinese, heads instead to her local hospital for a dose of IV antibiotics. TIME

SWEDISH MEDIA

Fortsatt mycket mykoplasma i Sverige and Strategier vid handläggning av infektion orsakad av mykoplasma. SMI Nyhetsbrev nr 16, 19 januari 2012. Smittskyddsinstitutet

Resistens hos Mycoplasma genitalium - undvik azitromycin 1 gram som engångsdos vid genitala infektioner. EPI-aktuellt, vol 10, nr 10. Smittskyddsinstitutet

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