Tag: Resistance
TIGS organizes an expert discussion on Antimicrobial Resistance in India
A highly credible panel of experts discussed the current state of AMR, challenges, and next steps in tackling AMR to commemorate the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (18-24 November 2020).......................
India-UK team tackles antimicrobial resistance spread in waterways
British and Indian experts are joining forces to investigate the impact that releasing antibiotics from antibiotic manufacturing into India’s waterways has on the spread of potentially fatal drug-resistant infections.............
Module Innovations raises upto US$ 3.2 M from CARB-X
Module Innovations receives upto US$ 3.2 million funding from CARB-X to develop a rapid and easy Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) diagnostic giving antibiotic resistance results in 2 hours....................
New platform for safer antibiotics production
It could mean a breakthrough for the responsible manufacturing of antibiotics and reduce the risk of the industry itself contributing to the spread of antimicrobial resistance..................
BD-India organizes multi-city masterclass to combat antimicrobial resistance
The masterclass organized at the Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai city witnessed the participation of international speakers, healthcare experts and city’s leading microbiologists....................
Sustainable manufacturing practices key to combat growing AMR
The experts highlighted the importance of attention towards pharmaceutical manufacturing practices at the joint workshop conducted in Korea by Centrient Pharmaceuticals and Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, on 'Sustainable Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals'.........................
Drug resistant infections associated with higher in hospital mortality rate in...
Researchers analyzed antimicrobial susceptibility testing results and mortality outcomes for over 4,000 patients who visited one of ten tertiary or quaternary referral hospitals across India in 2015...………..
Rising antibiotic resistance taking India to pre-antibiotic era, say experts
The loss of effective antibiotic therapy threatens to make once-treatable infections deadly again and jeopardize the delivery of modern medicine. Therefore, rationalizing the use of antibiotics is essential to reduce the burden of infectious diseases...………...
How heavy metals are helping spread drug resistance
Researchers have identified exposure to cadmium as a reason for Salmonella becoming resistant to antibiotics and have deciphered how cadmium affects the bacteria.......................
Gut bacteria are a reservoir of drug resistance genes, find THSTI...
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad based scientists have found that friendly gut bacteria are a reservoir of drug resistance genes which when transferred to disease-causing bacteria may make them untreatable...............