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antibiotic resistance - The ability of a micro-organism to disable an antibiotic or prevent its transport into the cell. [FAO]

News archive for antibiotic resistance.

Team Tracks Antibiotic Resistance From Swine Farms To Groundwater  -  21 Aug 2007
Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — The routine use of antibiotics in swine production can have unintended consequences, with antibiotic resistance genes sometimes leaking from

Take now, pay later  -  21 Aug 2007
Guardian Unlimited,..."I know about antibiotic resistance, but it's a bit like climate change - it's someone else's problem," she says. Hays, it seems, is not alone in this

Beneficial Products Continue to Play a Role in Daily Hygiene ...  -  21 Aug 2007
Web Services Journal,What is most disappointing is the authors' revisiting attempts to link real-life use of these products to antibiotic resistance -- a claim that is refuted

American College of Gastroenterology Issues Guidelines for ...  -  21 Aug 2007
Medscape (subscription)..."The most important predictors of treatment failure following anti-H. pylori therapy include poor compliance and antibiotic resistance," the study authors

News source: Business Wire  -  21 Aug 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),...therapy contributes to increased mortality, morbidity, length of stay, overall hospital costs and in the long run to increased antibiotic resistance.

Student Testers Find Healthful Snacks  -  21 Aug 2007
Washington Post,Plus, you can save money and help reduce antibiotic resistance. Southwestern Salmon and Black Beans is one option. It's ready in just 30 minutes and gets

Plants provide potent antimicrobial extracts  -  21 Aug 2007
FoodProductionDaily.com,..."They will be eating foods that are safer for longer periods of time; they will not be expanding antibiotic resistance; and they will not be adding to their

Research and Markets: Antibiotics and Drug Resistance 2007 - Drug ...  -  Aug 20, 2007
Business Wire (press release),This report reviews new drug innovation and strategy to combat antibiotic resistance mechanisms. This embraces current research-stage activities,

Indonesia must be smarter in handing out antibiotics  -  Aug 19, 2007
Jakarta Post,...the Diponegoro University in Semarang, we recently concluded a study on the use of antibiotics in Indonesia and the problem of antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotic Resistance: Doctors' Antibiotic Prescribing Practices ...  -  Jul 27, 2007
Science Daily (press release)And this practice is hindering efforts to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance - whereby disease-causing bacteria become unresponsive to the most

Study uses ecology and evolution to model the rise of antibiotic ...  -  Aug 13, 2007
Laboratory Products News,...of bacteria into an environment containing antibiotics introduces sufficient genetic variation to cause the evolution of antibiotic resistance,

Antibiotic Resistance and Generic Competition Impede Antibiotics ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
PR-GB.com (press release),Owing to antibiotic resistance and generic competition, the global antibiotics market is forecast to witness lackluster growth and reach US$30 billion by

Antibacterial Soap No Better And May Be Worse Than Plain Soap  -  Aug 16, 2007
MedPage Today,Only a few studies have attempted to assess the relationship between the biocide-containing soap and the emergence of antibiotic resistance in a community

Plain Soap as Good as Antibacterial  -  Aug 17, 2007
WebMD..."It is egregious to continually hype the hypothesis that these products are contributing to antibiotic resistance," Brian Sansoni of the Soap and Detergent

Human antibiotic resistance studied in pigs  -  Aug 6, 2007
PigProgress.net,Dr Chin told the 2007 Australian Society for Microbiology's annual conference in Adelaide in July that: "The current theory of antibiotic resistance is that

Cranberries May Offer Natural Protection as Antibiotic Resistance ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
Nutrition horizon (press release),07/08/07 Recent headlines suggesting consumers and doctors are doing everything they can to combat antibiotic resistance -- the immunity that bacteria

Unique antibiotic beats superbugs' resistance  -  Aug 6, 2007
Chemistry World,The issue of antibiotic resistance has become quite acute and it is studies like this that will pave the way in finding solutions to the clinical problem,'

Antibiotic Prescribing Increases Antibiotic Resistance in ...  -  Jul 30, 2007
Medscape (subscription)Antibiotic prescribing to individual children may also maintain a high level of antibiotic resistance in the general population. "To develop an effective

Swine Manure Unlikely as Major Contributor to Antibiotic Resistance  -  Jul 26, 2007
Farms.com,We also find that there isn'ta great deal of background antibiotic resistance in microorganisms in the groundwater. The do not come from any digestive tract

Warning over antibiotic resistance  -  Jul 26, 2007
Channel 4 News,This fell back close to the initial level by 12 weeks, but the effect may be sufficient to sustain a high level of antibiotic resistance in the population,

Pediatric Antibiotic Prescribing Still Risks High Level Of ...  -  Jul 27, 2007
Medical News Today,The team therefore decided to find out what impact this might have on antibiotic resistance in individual children in primary care.

Pharmion and MethylGene Announce Collaboration to Develop Sirtuin ...  -  Aug 20, 2007
CNNMoney.com...combination with azoles for fungal infections; an HDAC program for Huntington's disease; and a beta-lactamase program to overcome antibiotic resistance.

Scientists study antibiotics resistance  -  Aug 2, 2007
Earthtimes.org..."They also maintain a pool of antibiotic resistance genes within the microbial community of patients treated with antibiotics.

Bronchitis more resistant to antibiotics  -  Aug 14, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full article Antibiotic resistance -- Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic.

Regular Dose of Antibiotics can Cause High Level of Drug ...  -  Jul 29, 2007
MedIndia,So the researchers set off to measure the consequence of antibiotic prescribing on antibiotic resistance in individual children in primary care.

Grocer Publix to Offer 7 Antibiotics for Free  -  Aug 7, 2007
ABC News..."This will be particularly concerning in Florida, a state that already has certain antibiotic resistance problems at levels far greater than other parts of

Pigs key to understanding antibiotic resistant bacteria  -  Aug 1, 2007
News-Medical.net,..."They also maintain a pool of antibiotic resistance genes within the microbial community of patients treated with antibiotics." Using pigs as a model,

Gene clues from dying MRSA victim  -  Jul 28, 2007
BBC News,Dr Mark Enright, a researcher on antibiotic resistance from Imperial College London, said that the paper represented a 'smoking gun' on the methods used by

Bacteria Mutate Much More Than Previously Thought  -  Aug 18, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...of genes mutating - have important implications for studies in antibiotic resistance and also how bacteria develop the capacity to attack their host.

Happier factory chickens?  -  Aug 14, 2007
Charleston City Paper,Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, and very likely related to our heavy consumption of antibiotic-raised factory animals.

Pa. scientist again attacks evolution  -  Aug 19, 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer,...by denying the evolution of antibiotic resistance, and destroy confidence in science in general, relegating America to a backward technological status.

Prescribing antibiotics to children remains common practice  -  Jul 29, 2007
News-Medical.net,Regular prescribing of antibiotics to children in the community is sufficient to sustain a high level of antibiotic resistance in the population,

Kids Being Prescribed 'Too Many Antibiotics'  -  Jul 26, 2007
Life Style Extra,So the researchers set out to assess the effect of antibiotic prescribing on antibiotic resistance in individual children in primary care.

Doctors Still Over-Prescribing Antibiotics to Kids?  -  Jul 29, 2007
Ivanhoe,...(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Antibiotic resistance is a problem that doesn't seem to be going away. Researchers from the United Kingdom warn regularly prescribing

Osteo med castrates drug-resistant bacteria  -  Jul 24, 2007
National Review of Medicine,Antibiotic resistance is cause enough for concern that the CDC in the US has designated an entire program to watch for it: the National Antimicrobial

Advanced Life Sciences Announces Formation of National Advisory ...  -  Aug 2, 2007
CNNMoney.comDr. Niederman has lectured nationally and internationally and has an ongoing interest in the impact of antibiotic resistance on the management and outcomes

Mechanism Of Unusual Antibiotic  -  Aug 8, 2007
Chemical & Engineering News..."This is by no means a solution to the problem of antibiotic resistance," he says. However, "the structure may provide ideas to develop compounds that don't

How bacteria evolve into superbugs  -  Jul 27, 2007
PhysOrg.com,...“With increased incidence of antibiotic resistance and a trend toward single-site super-hospitals, there is a growing need for greater understanding of how

Food safety board to report on import seafood  -  Aug 16, 2007
ABC Online,..."Our job is looking to the toxicity of these chemicals; the more complex antibiotic resistance is for the National Medical Research Council," he said.

Plain soap as effective as anti-bacterial  -  Aug 17, 2007
ImediNews,This antibiotic resistance has not been detected at the population level, but E. coli bacteria adapted in lab experiments showed resistance when exposed to

Ondine Announces Appointment of Dr. Timothy Rose as the Chairman ...  -  Aug 19, 2007
Canada NewsWire (press release),Photodisinfection provides broad-spectrum antimicrobial efficacy without encouraging the formation and spread of antibiotic resistance.

Research Identifies Environmentally Sustainable Management ...  -  Jul 27, 2007
Farmscape Online,We also find that there isn’ta great deal of background antibiotic resistance in microorganisms in the groundwater.�? He stresses, “They do not come from any

VITAL SIGNS: Weighing Risks When Stores Give Out Prescription ...  -  Aug 8, 2007
CNNMoney.comSuch a scenario could lead to broader antibiotic resistance, which can make available drugs less effective against the organisms that cause sickness.

Ondine Biopharma Announces Compliance with AIM Rule 26  -  Aug 17, 2007
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),Photodisinfection provides broad-spectrum antimicrobial efficacy without encouraging the formation and spread of antibiotic resistance.

Doctors warn on superbugs  -  Aug 1, 2007
Melbourne Herald Sun,The prescribing service warns that although antibiotic resistance is a natural result of evolution, there are measures that can be taken to slow it down.

Genetics: Pace of change  -  Aug 15, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),The findings may help to explain how pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance evolve quickly in bacteria. The nectar-eating bat Glossophaga soricina

Doctors still over-prescribing antibiotics  -  Jul 27, 2007
United Press InternationalThis practice is hindering efforts to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance, whereby disease-causing bacteria become unresponsive to the most commonly

Study suggests efficacy of non-antibiotic acne treatment  -  Aug 13, 2007
CosmeticsDesign.com,...an effective non-antibiotic treatment for acne that may help to provide a solution to the problem of antibiotic resistance in acne causing bacteria.

Banned seafood imports raise fears  -  Aug 10, 2007
Stuff.co.nz,..."The only person I know who is doing any work on the antibiotic-resistance in prawns in New Zealand is the high school student sitting next to me,

DispersinB(TM) for Treating Antibiotic Resistant Swine ...  -  Jul 30, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),The research findings reported in the publication, entitled "Poly-N-acetylglucosamine mediates biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance in Actinobacillus

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