Global scenario of microbes, infections, antibiotics and resistance - By Dr. A.J. Tamhankar

-FDA Approval Of Bacitracin For Injection, USP
-Response To Vaccines Could Depend On Your Sex
-Initiative seeks billions of dollars to develop promising drugs and vaccines for neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and dengue fever.
--Scientists are reporting success in a first attempt to silence the biochemical conversations that disease-causing bacteria use to marshal their forces and cause infections. In a study in ACS' monthly journal, Biomacromolecules, they describe use of specially designed plastic-like materials to soak up the substances that bacteria produce and pass to one another as messages.
-An international team led by a University of Cincinnati (UC) researcher has shown how a bacterial community evolves to survive hostile host defenses in the body.
-Dramatic surge seen in kids hospitalized with MRSA in USA
-WHO – Sweden pushes the AB resistance question at WHO’s WHA