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

-Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of novel drugs in the therapeutic areas of infection, announced the expansion of its collaboration with the U.S. Government to include the evaluation of Restanza's activity against sexually transmitted infections (STI's), such as gonorrhea.
-Multiple imaging agents with a hybrid imaging technique can be a valuable tool for accurately diagnosing and determining treatment for a variety of diabetes-associated foot diseases.
-What Is A Cryptosporidium Infection (Cryptosporidiosis)? What Causes A Cryptosporidium Infection (Cryptosporidiosis)?
-A team from the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research has revealed that a small chemical, made by the superbug Staphylococcus aureus and its drug-resistant forms, determines this disease's strength and ability to infect.
-Electronic health records can significantly shorten treatment times for patients diagnosed with chlamydia,
-In a clinical trial involving HIV-negative volunteers with early-stage syphilis, researchers have found that azithromycin pills are as effective as penicillin injections in curing early-stage syphilis. -Biosensors Reveal How Single Bacterium Gets The Message To Split Into A Swimming And A Stay-Put Cell
-Keyboards located in triage and registration areas were found to be more contaminated with bacteria than those in other areas of the Emergency Department, "Contamination was predominantly found in non-treatment areas,"
-BD Announces First FDA-Cleared Assay On The BD MAX™ System To Detect Group B Streptococcus
-Researchers have discovered a new strain of bacteria that help degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, environmental pollutants that are the most harmful aspects of oil spills.
-HPA Urges Fans To practise safe sex, by using a condom, to reduce the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infection while in South Africa for The World Cup."
-Eliminating Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections: Avoid Catheter Use
-How Bacteria Make Syringesto inject virulence factors directly into the host cell.
-Texas Tech University announced Wednesday the signing of an exclusive worldwide license agreement for a chemical additive called an aptamer that makes certain existing antibiotics viable against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
-Center for Global Development (CGD) report. while talking of The Race Against Drug Resistance says The growing threat of drug resistance, which will increasingly leave more and more people vulnerable to diseases that were once easier to treat, requires a systematic global response, and says further that the Global Drug Distribution Programs is One Factor In Hastening Drug Resistance.
-Risk Factors for Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli Carriage in Young Children in Peru: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Prevalence Study
-Researchers have found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in seven species of sharks and redfish captured in waters off Belize, Florida, Louisiana and Massachusetts in USA.
-Scientists Watch As E. Coli Bacteria Evolve Heat Resistance Under Stress
-Altered Virus Becomes Medicine