India’s AMR surveillance network is primarily built on a few dozen tertiary-care hospitals. The problem is not the quality of data from these tertiary centres; it is the narrowness of the sample. A surveillance system built only on a few dozen largest hospitals cannot speak for the entire country
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Genomic surveillance reveals resistance among key pathogens like Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Vibrio cholerae is rising rapidly, with susceptibility to commonly used antibiotics often falling below 20%
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Kerala imports at least 60% of broiler chicken, eggs and vegetables from neighbouring States, many of which have no AMR
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A small study has found evidence of colistin-resistant bacteria in the gut. 77% of such bacteria were found to be
Read MoreThe 443 cholera-causing Vibrio cholerae isolates isolated from patients from Kolkata and Delhi show very high drug resistance to 22
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A novel compound isolated from a soil bacterium by IMTECH researchers shows promise in killing Gram-negative bacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae and
Read MoreAbdul Ghafur explains how the team deciphered the mechanism by which Klebsiella bacteria develop resistance to colistin, a last-line antibiotic. Mutations
Read MoreResearchers found colistin-resistant bacteria in 49% vegetable, meat samples in Chennai. They have for the first time deciphered the mechanism
Read MoreIIT Roorkee researchers have identified the RNA protein Hfq as a potential drug target. Once the Hfq gene is removed,
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Researchers at IISER Pune found that E. coli subjected to different stresses simultaneously and in a unpredictable manner evolved to tolerate novel stresses
Read MoreResearchers found a significant change in the pattern of drug resistance in E. coli seen in Egyptian vultures that come
Read MoreThe small molecule used by Prof. Ranjana Pathania’s team at IIT Roorkee inhibits the proton gradient that drives the efflux pump leading
Read MoreSynthetic peptides, which have sequences identical to the natural ones isolated from the bacteria, prepared in the lab showed antimicrobial
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