‘Narratives of Delay’: How the Animal Pharma Industry Resists Moves to Curb the Overuse of Antibiotics on Farms
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Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new…
Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new…
Everyone poops—and that reveals traces of pathogens. Comprehensively analyzing wastewater could help find flu and detect the…
Según distintas investigaciones, la carne picada y la de pollo son las más peligrosas, seguidas por los filetes, los bistecs y…
Industrial farming is a principal cause of both antibiotic resistance and climate change.
Alexander KA et al. (2018) In: The Connections Between Ecology and Infectious Disease.
Public Health England recently announced that there are 165 new antibiotic resistant infections every day in England.
(莘莘深/编译)11月第3周是美国疾病预防控制中心(CDC)、世界卫生组织(WHO)和其他卫生权威机构倡导的国际抗生素耐药性宣传周。那个周末,从中国传来的爆炸性消息无疑让抗药性问题得到了新的重视——虽然这可能是组织者们并不想看到的。 11月19日,来自中国…
Maikel C. Rheinstädter, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, and colleagues have examined how the membranes of bacteria…
Practices About Antibiotic Use Among Urban Residents: Central African Journal of Public Health Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2019…
The world’s largest animal drugs company has been accused of double standards and of fueling the development of ‘superbugs’ by…
The world’s biggest animal drugs company has been accused of double standards and of exposing consumers in India to “higher…
There has been a lot of news over the past few weeks about the rise of superbugs and antibiotic overuse, including a nasty…
There has been a lot of news over the past few weeks about the rise of superbugs and antibiotic overuse, including a nasty…
There has been a lot of news over the past few weeks about the rise of superbugs and antibiotic overuse, including a nasty…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that at least 2 million illnesses per year in the United States…
Media playback is unsupported on your device The world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", scientists have warned after…
Colistin, an antibiotic discovered in the late 1940s, is not a great drug. Its use comes with a startling list of potential…
To mark our 30th anniversary, Infectious Disease News will be examining some of the infectious diseases that have defined and…
Colistin is an antibiotic of last resort, one of the final options left when all other drugs fail.
Four years ago, the CDC’s Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States report warned that inaction could have “potentially…
Factory farming is bad for animals, the environment and our health. The greatly excessive use of antibiotics in food production…
Last week, fast-food poultry giant KFC joined McDonald's, Chipotle, Panera Bread, and 11 other major chains in promising not to…
Antimicrobial resistance poses one of the biggest threats to public health faced in modern times.
analysis By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen Kuala Lumpur — The greatly excessive use of antibiotics in food production in…
China is about to make a major change to how it uses a last-resort antibiotic called colistin.
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China has banned colistin as an additive in animal feed but will soon begin allowing the so-called antibiotic of last resort to…
SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Los Angeles County Health authorities issued a national biorisk warning on Tuesday after identifying…
2017年1月28日,国际顶级期刊《柳叶刀感染性疾病》(Lancet Infectious Diseases)杂志在线发表了由中国农业大学汪洋、中山大学中山医学院田国宝和浙江大学医学院附属第二医院张嵘等关于多粘菌素耐药机制MCR-1分子流行病学、临床感染和定…
2017年1月28日,国际顶级期刊《柳叶刀感染性疾病》(Lancet Infectious Diseases)杂志在线发表了由中国农业大学汪洋、中山大学中山医学院田国宝和浙江大学医学院附属第二医院张嵘等关于多粘菌素耐药机制MCR-1分子流行病学、临床感染和定…
Escherichia coli. Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH The mcr-1 gene—a gene that makes bacteria resistant to…
The mcr-1 gene–a gene that makes bacteria resistant to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort, and that is transferrable…
The mcr-1 gene–a gene that makes bacteria resistant to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort, and that is transferrable…
The mcr-1 gene--a gene that makes bacteria resistant to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort, and that is transferrable…
The mcr-1 gene—a gene that makes bacteria resistant to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort, and that is transferrable…
The mcr-1 gene--a gene that makes bacteria resistant to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort, and that is transferrable…
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A reader who works in biotech responds to the TAD question, “What is a common and/or annoying misconception about your vocation?…
Una mujer fallecía la semana pasada por una infección resistente a 26 antibióticos.
Giving routine antibiotics to livestock has been sharply curtailed in the United States, thanks to new rules by the Food and…
The alarm bells sounded on November 18, 2015. Antibiotic resistance is usually a slow-moving crisis, one of the reasons its…
In a hog barn in rural Iowa, veterinarian Paul Thomas’s approach sends pigs scurrying.
In a hog barn near Odebolt, veterinarian Paul Thomas's approach sends pigs scurrying.
Back to listing 17 Nov 2016 The results of a UK-China antimicrobial research collaboration have been pivotal to informing a ban…
On Mr Shen Jianping's antibiotic-free pig farm outside of Shanghai, biosecurity is something of an obsession.
On Shen Jian-Ping’s antibiotic-free pig farm outside of Shanghai, biosecurity is something of an obsession.
On Shen Jian-Ping’s antibiotic-free pig farm outside of Shanghai, biosecurity is something of an obsession.
The wiry 46-year-old has spent 4.7 million yuan ($700,000) giving his swine roomier, better-ventilated digs and there are three…
Several times a week Brad Spellberg struggles with a difficult decision. A patient stumbles into his emergency room in southern…
A superbug that can shake off a last-ditch antibiotic called colistin has been alarming the global health community since 2015.
Das Problem multiresistenter Bakterien wächst in Deutschland und dem Rest der Welt.
In addition to causing immense animal suffering, factory farms are spawning dangerous superbugs that current antibiotics are…
Antibioottien teho heikkenee sitä mukaa, kun bakteerit kehittävät niille vastustuskyvyn.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A team in the Bacterial Diseases Branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research recently became…
Last year, UK and Chinese researchers identified an E. coli strain in Chinese pigs that resists colistin, a break-glass-in-case-o…
Scientists have discovered a third instance of a bacteria resistant to one of the strongest antibiotics available, raising…
Dr. Byeonghwa Jeon is an assistant professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta in Canada.
For once, the headlines about the latest health scare are not hyperbole: The end of the Antibiotics Era may be nigh.
Posted: 4:08 p.m. 0 The following editorial appears on Bloomberg View: For once, the headlines about the latest health scare…
Order Prints '); //--> ARTICLE OPTIONS The following editorial appeared on Bloomberg View on June 2: NEW YORK — For once, the…
The mcr-1 plasmid-borne colistin resistance gene has been found primarily in Escherichia coli, pictured.
A dangerous new form of antibiotic resistance has spread to the United States, according to a report published Thursday.
Negli ultimi giorni si è parlato molto del caso di un batterio resistente agli antibiotici identificato per la prima volta…
A dangerous new form of antibiotic resistance has spread to the United States, according to a report published Thursday.
Late last year, a team of of Chinese and UK researchers shocked the global public health world when they identified a strand of…
von Fee Riebeling - Erstmals wurde ein gegen alle Antibiotika resistentes Bakterium entdeckt.
Wissenschaftler vom Walter Reed Army Institute of Research berichten, dass erstmals in den USA Bakterien in einem Menschen in…
Antibiootteja vastustava superbakteeri levisi USA:han – Suomalaisprofessori: ”Erittäin huolestuttavaa” Asiantuntijat ovat jo…
Antibiotic drug resistance is set to become one of the greatest global threats to healthcare as gold-standard drugs that…
Secondo lo studio in futuro i batteri saranno sempre più resistenti agli antibiotici I BATTERI diventano sempre più resistenti…
Not long ago, this whole protein assembly line might have been derailed if each egg hadn't been treated with gentamicin, an…
A diagnostic test used by hospitals says a recently isolated strain of bacteria is susceptible to the last resort antibiotic…
A diagnostic test used by hospitals says a recently isolated strain of bacteria is susceptible to the last resort antibiotic…
In November of 2015, scientists in southeastern China were combing through bacterial samples collected from hospitals in the…
In November of 2015, scientists in southeastern China were combing through bacterial samples collected from hospitals in the…
The mcr-1 gene may be used as a marker of colistin-resistance in Enterobacteriaceae isolates, according to data presented at…
© Sheng Li/Reuters A farmer works on a pig farm in China, 2012. E. coli samples from commercial pig farms were found to be…
Last November, researchers in China announced they’d made an alarming discovery: a new bacterial superbug lurking in the food…
Wenn nichts mehr gegen hartnäckige Bakterien half, griffen Ärzte bisher auf Colistin zurück.
Getty ImagesThe European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced Jan. 11 that it is devising new plans to limit the spread of a kind…