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Diane Shader Smith's daughter, Mallory Smith, died at age 25 after fighting an antibiotic-resistant lung infection for 12 years. A new book of her daughter's diary entries and a website are aimed ...
The IACG worked with international organizations and experts in human, animal, and plant health to create a plan to fight antimicrobial resistance. [143] Their report released in April 2019 highlights the seriousness of antimicrobial resistance and the threat it poses to world health.
He was ultimately treated successfully with meropenem, an antibiotic used sparingly as a last line of defense against infections resistant to other medications. “This is not a cause for panic.
The Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance was established in November 2020 [5] [6] [7] following the recommendation of the Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance to strengthen global political momentum and leadership on AMR. The inaugural meeting of the Group took place in January 2021.
Current BSAC activities include: Publishes the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy [5] and its sister publication, JAC-AMR. [6]Provides accreditation to hospitals as part of its Global Antimicrobial Stewardship Scheme (GAMSAS), [7] a programme of work that was used as a case study in the Government of the United Kingdom's National Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance, ‘Confronting ...
The U.S. Government Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Challenge, initiated in 2018, is a global effort that calls upon pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, food animal producers and purchasers, medical professionals, government health officials, and industry leaders worldwide to collaborate in combating antibiotic resistance.
The film deals with the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance spreading worldwide and the associated consequences for human cohabitation. The starting point of the documentary film is the United Nations General Assembly in September 2016 in New York, where the problem of the worldwide growing resistance to antibiotics was a central theme.
Drug resistance is the reduction in effectiveness of a medication such as an antimicrobial or an antineoplastic in treating a disease or condition. [1] The term is used in the context of resistance that pathogens or cancers have "acquired", that is, resistance has evolved.