AMR Awareness Week: Natural livestock farming effective bottom-up approach to reduce antibiotic use in dairy sector
Crisis with AMR obliges dairy sector to look beyond maximising cattle productivity and focus on both milk quantity, quality
AMR Awareness Week: Way forward for pharma companies to ensure antibiotics manufacturing doesn’t drive resistance
The risk of AMR posed by the release of antibiotic manufacturing waste can be prevented
How bees can monitor pollution for us — everything from toxic metals to antimicrobial resistance
Honey bees can reveal patterns of contamination that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Wastewater is a valuable source of information — Africa’s scientists need to use it to find drug-resistant bacteria
Once sewer networks are in place, standardised protocols for assessing antimicrobial resistance in wastewater treatment plants must be established
AMR in Africa: Big chunk of chicken, pork sold in Kenya found to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Consumption of meat contaminated with bacteria resistant to antibiotics can spread food-borne diseases and cause AMR
Antimicrobial resistance: These tribal Andhra districts effectively use ethnoveterinary medicine for poultry care
The formal poultry healthcare service system in the tribal districts Alluri Seetha Ramaju and Parvathipuram Manyam is almost non-existent
Antimicrobial resistance: Can sustainable integrated multi-trophic aquaculture reduce AMR in aquatic systems
Developing sustainable and well-maintained integrated multi-trophic aquaculture systems could be a new hope to constrain AMR
Global Leaders Group call for action to tackle antimicrobial waste
Discharge management from food systems, manufacturing facilities and human health systems into the environment is key, says document
Union agriculture ministry prohibits use of TB antibiotics on crops
The draft order prohibits import, manufacture or formulation of Streptomycin and Tetracycline for use in agriculture from February 1, 2022; …
Why colistin should be banned in food-animal production sector in India
Action against the drug, used as a growth promoter in food animals, is imperative to curb antimicrobial resistance in humans
We can no longer outrun antibiotic resistance. So, here’s what we need to do instead
Researchers are tackling the problem of antibiotic resistance head on — by hunting for the genes that enable bacteria to become resistant …
CSE slams Indian poultry industry for using its name to misrepresent facts
Industry is misguiding the nation on antibiotic misuse in the sector and its contribution to the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in India,…
Despite global momentum to address antimicrobial resistance in environment, critical gaps remain
Despite promising statements of intent from pharmaceutical industry, irresponsible practices in supply chains are yet to be curbed
New evidence emerges on spread of antibiotic resistance through soil
Researchers have found that antibiotic resistance can be passed between bacteria found in the soil
Spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria linked to effluents from sewage treatment plants
Study finds high levels of β-lactam-resistant bacteria and genes responsible for antimicrobial resistance from STP effluents
Copper is great at killing superbugs – so why don't hospitals use it?
Lack of knowledge and perceived cost issues could be holding back the fight against the superbugs
Bacteria resistant to 'last resort' antibiotic isolated from swine farm
Scientists in US isolate bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, resistant to carbapenems in the farm environment
Focus on environmental effects of antimicrobial resistance: experts
Working groups formulated input guidelines for addressing animal and environmental aspects of antimicrobial resistance
Researchers find new gene providing resistance to last-resort antibiotic
The finding comes eight months after the first-ever gene responsible for resistance to colistin, a last-resort drug for multi-drug-resistant …
Antimicrobial resistance: Madhya Pradesh’s action plan needs targeted and specific interventions
Antibiotics in food animals an essential environmental and public health issue
Antibiotic resistance: AMR among poultry, cattle a worry for Kenya
Health ministry draws up ways to prevent antibiotics residue from ending up in plate
Poor regulation of aquaculture endangers human health
Closure of illegal aquaculture farms is a temporary solution, better regulation holds the key
New certification scheme launched to ensure responsible antibiotic manufacturing in India
Manufacturers should provide effective environmental management and wastewater treatment systems to obtain this certification
New materials may make implants safe
Scaffold made from silk protein fibroin and silver nanoparticles found to have antimicrobial properties
African nations endorse regional strategy to accelerate action against antimicrobial resistance
Strategy aims to accelerate implementation of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance, committed to by WHO Africa states eight years …