RESISTANCE IN THE NEWS

19 Jul 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

Tackling unregulated health markets. In Africa and Asia, many people buy their own medicines and seek health care from providers who are informally trained. Patients may receive drugs that they don’t need or that don’t work - with antibiotics, in particular, being widely overprescribed. reliefweb and Institute for Development Studies comment piece in Nature

The war on ailing economy neglects the health of South Sudanese. Sudan Tribune

Private Physicians Drive Up Antibiotic Resistance, Helped Along By Patients. The researchers associated increases in multidrug-resistant MRSA in the hospital with excessive use of two specific classes of antibiotics often prescribed to treat pneumonia (fluoroquinolones) and offered as a substitute for patients allergic to penicillin (macrolides). Forbes original report in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Health: MRSA and C. diff at record low. Clostridium difficile among the over 65s in Scotland and cases of MRSA are at the lowest level since recording began, according to the latest figures. eGovmonitor

Why antibiotics are losing the war against bacteria. As bacteria become ever more resistant to drugs, world health experts fear a future without antibiotics. The Telegraph

Disease pathogens reaches the meat counter. (Google Translate - Krankheitserreger gelangen bis an die Fleischtheke) Berliner Morgenpost (German)

Bacteria in poultry: high intensity every second pre trial. (Google Translate - Keime im Geflügel: Hohe Belastung bei jeder zweiten vorverpackten Probe) Vorarlberg (German)

Leaked Hospital report causes ‘unjustified’ panic. Report on infections in Haifa hospitals leads to MK condemnation of excessive rates” of infections. The Jerusalem Post

Resistance to antibiotics is becoming a crisis. One of the great great medical advances of the last century, the invention of antibiotics, is at risk of being lost. The Washington Post Opinions

Infections after surgery (Google Translate - Infeksjoner etter kirurgiske inngrep) folkehelseinstituttet (Norwegian)

SWEDISH MEDIA

Viktig antibiotika försvinner. Enbart i Europa dör årligen cirka 25 000 människor i infektioner orsakade av bakterier som är resistenta mot de antibiotika som används. Ändå tillhandahåller läkemedelsindustrin inte många gamla antibiotika som fortfarande kan ha effekt mot resistenta bakteriestammar.

– När industrin inte klarar av att utveckla nya effektiva antibiotika för att möta hotet från multiresistenta bakterier borde den åtminstone kunna tillhandahålla befintliga antibiotika som fortfarande kan ha effekt, säger professor Otto Cars, ordförande för den internationella nätverksorganisationen React mot antibiotikaresistens, med säte vid Uppsala universitet. UNT also in DN, SvD and Aftonbladet

Dumt om antibiotika! Äsch, överförskrivning av antibiotika är välan inget problem! Politiker som tjatar om det är bara populister. Så, ungefär, resonerar Waldemar Ingdahl. Expressen referring to the report from Timbro "Världen väntar på antibiotika" presented on SvD Brännpunkt on July 11

Stort intresse för antibiotikaresistens under ESOF 2012 i Dublin. Euroscience Open Forum, ESOF, är Europas största forum för vetenskap och forskning och lockade drygt 4000 forskare, politiker och media från 74 länder till Dublin under några intensiva dagar 11-15 juli. De svenska forskningsråden deltog på ESOF med ett lunchseminarium och en mycket populär monter med temat antibiotikaresistens. VR

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