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    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR or AR) occurs when microbes evolve mechanisms that protect them from antimicrobials, which are drugs used to treat infections...
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  • An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms (microbicide) or stops their growth (bacteriostatic agent). Antimicrobial medicines can be grouped...
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    evolved resistance to them. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a naturally occurring process, is driven largely by the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials. Yet...
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  • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) directly kills about 1,600 people each year in Australia. This is a currently serious threat to both humans and animals...
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  • Multiple drug resistance (MDR), multidrug resistance or multiresistance is antimicrobial resistance shown by a species of microorganism to at least one...
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  • applications of antimicrobials, i.e. to stem antimicrobial overuse, e.g. giving antibacterial drugs for viral infections, and thus antimicrobial resistance, ensure...
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    Antibiograms help the clinician to select the best empiric antimicrobial therapy based on the local resistance patterns until the laboratory test results are available...
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    Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also called host defence peptides (HDPs) are part of the innate immune response found among all classes of life. Fundamental...
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    of resistance that pathogens or cancers have "acquired", that is, resistance has evolved. Antimicrobial resistance and antineoplastic resistance challenge...
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    It caused more than 100,000 deaths worldwide attributable to antimicrobial resistance in 2019. MRSA is any strain of S. aureus that has developed (through...
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    P, Ekta G, Bordon J (January 2013). "Klebsiella pneumoniae antimicrobial drug resistance, United States, 1998-2010". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 19...
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    Nevertheless, Davies has written and spoken extensively about the rise of antimicrobial resistance in medicine and animal husbandry, including carrying out work to...
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    aureus is one of the leading pathogens for deaths associated with antimicrobial resistance and the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains, such as methicillin-resistant...
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  • Multiple resistance may refer to: Multiple drug resistance including Antimicrobial resistance Pesticide resistance § Multiple and cross-resistance This disambiguation...
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    antimicrobial use. National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance in Agriculture was set in place to contain the rise in antimicrobial resistance and...
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    has identified antimicrobial resistance as one of the three greatest threats to human health. IDSA has identified antimicrobial resistance as a priority...
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  • is provided below. These bacteria have shown antibiotic resistance (or antimicrobial resistance). Clostridioides difficile is a nosocomial pathogen that...
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    to September 2016. He chaired the UK's Independent Review into Antimicrobial Resistance from 2014 to 2016. He was the chairman of the Council of Chatham...
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    transporters The small multidrug resistance family (SMR) The resistance-nodulation-cell division superfamily (RND) The multi antimicrobial extrusion protein family...
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    Bruning O, et al. (June 2008). "Effect of Veillonella parvula on the antimicrobial resistance and gene expression of Streptococcus mutans grown in a dual-species...
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    country is available from Statistics Norway. Overall the risk of antimicrobial resistance in the food supply chains is "negligible". Specifically cattle...
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    management and control the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Owing to the widespread macrolide resistance, samples that are positive for Mgen should...
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    antibiotics there has been a considerable increase in the evolution of antimicrobial resistance factors, now outpacing the development of new antibiotics. Examples...
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    injections. As of October 2008[update], the global problem of advancing antimicrobial resistance has led to a renewed interest in its use. Fusidic acid is active...
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    The theme of World Health Day 2011, marked on 7 April 2011, was "antimicrobial resistance and its global spread" and focused on the need for governments...
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  • identified antimicrobial resistance as a significant public health threat. SIDP prioritizes promoting the appropriate use of antimicrobials and reducing...
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  • adequate response in the patient. Drug resistance, such as antimicrobial resistance or antineoplastic resistance, may make the first-line drug ineffective...
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  • national approach to combat antimicrobial resistance. The Nepalese government has developed a National Antimicrobial Resistance Containment Action Plan as...
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  • ceftaroline. Antimicrobial resistance is the driving force for the development of new antimicrobial agents. The complexity and diversity of resistance mechanisms...
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    that antibiotics act on. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is caused by overprescription of antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance refers to bacteria, fungi...
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