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10 stories to mark World AMR Awareness Week
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November 18, 2023
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Each year from Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, WHO observes World AMR Awareness Week, a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance and promote best practices among One Health stakeholders.
This year’s theme for World AMR Awareness Week is “Preventing antimicrobial resistance together.”
To recognize the week, Healio has compiled 10 recent stories regarding efforts to understand and combat antimicrobial resistance.
VIDEO: ‘We can all be antibiotic stewards’
In this video, Jasmine R. Marcelin, MD, encourages physicians who prescribe antibiotics to take the necessary steps to curb drug resistance and reduce disparities in care. Watch video.
VIDEO: How the U.S. monitors food for antimicrobial resistance
In this video, Claudine Kabera, MPH, discusses the U.S. government’s efforts to monitor the food supply for antimicrobial resistance through the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria in an effort to “keep as many antibiotics working as possible.” Watch video.
VIDEO: Prioritizing antimicrobial resistance in preparedness plans
In this video, Bruce Y. Lee, MD, MBA, discusses a panel he moderated at the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress on how to move the topic of antimicrobial resistance to the forefront in conversations about preparedness. Watch video.
Q&A: How can novel antibiotics help combat antimicrobial resistance?
Healio spoke with Ricardo Chaves, MD, PhD, about how novel antibiotics could help fight antimicrobial resistance, what is currently in the pipeline and what could be done to help bolster the development of new antibiotics. Read more.
More than 40% of infection-related deaths in Americas associated with antimicrobial resistance
In 2019, 569,000 deaths were associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance in the Americas, with the deadliest pathogens being Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Read more.
Vaccines for common pathogens could help fight antimicrobial resistance
Vaccines against common health care-associated, resistant pathogens — such as C. difficile and E. coli — could be a key in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, according to data presented at the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress. Read more.
Leftover antibiotics ‘major barrier to antimicrobial stewardship’
Nearly three-quarters of people who stop taking antibiotics save them, and half plan to use them in the future — an action that can contribute to the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, experts said. Read more.
Stop antibiotics once incisions are closed, updated SSI guidance says
Experts suggest that there is no evidence that continuing antibiotics after a patient’s incision has been closed prevents these infections, however, continuing antibiotics does increase the patient’s risk of Clostridioides difficile infection, acute kidney injury and antimicrobial resistance. Read more.
Antibiotic supply chain issues persist, study shows
More than two-thirds of antibacterial agents included in a study experienced supply chain issues between 2017 and 2022, though these issues decreased “significantly” for penicillins and quinolones. Read more.
10-year study finds nearly half of S. pneumoniae in U.S. adults drug resistant
Nearly half of all Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates collected from U.S. adults as part of a large study were resistant to at least one drug, researchers found. Read more.
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