Tag: AMR
Partners in Crime: Pseudomonas Auerginosa and SARS-CoV-2
The year was 1882 and a French chemist and biologist named Carle Gessard discovered an unusual bacterium that stained the bandages of French soldiers...
Antimicrobial Resistance: A Review of a Broad-Spectrum Problem and Future Needs
Abstract
The drivers of antimicrobial resistance are complex and multifaceted, often involving the interplay between lack of medical infrastructure, agriculture, the environment, inadequate surveillance and...
Antibiotic Stewardship: The Role Medical Laboratories Play
Abstract
I often refer to antimicrobial resistance as the slow-burning pandemic that continues to spread like a smoldering wildfire – picture a large expanding, ignored...
Artificial Intelligence: A Solution to the Gap in Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship
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Cite as: Frenkel A, Gross D, Levi S. (2020) Artificial intelligence: A solution to the need for outpatient antimicrobial...
The AMR Challenge: Accelerating the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
Later this month, as world leaders assemble at the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York City, the US HHS Secretary, Alex Azar,...
Antimicrobial Resistance: Too Much Study, Not Enough Action, No Time to...
Abstract
We have known about the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) for so long that it seems as though we should have solutions in hand...
Understanding Antibiotic Resistance through Art
The work of Anna Dumitriu will be on display at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, UK between September 28, 2017...
Stewards Working to Save Antibiotics: Pharmacy & The Medical Laboratory
Abstract
Approximately 1 in 25 patients hospitalized in a U.S. acute care hospital has at least one healthcare–associated infection (HAI), adding up to over 700,000...
I guess everything changes when it happens to you! Editorial...
Editorial By Rodney E. Rohde, PhD
Abstract:
On any given day, approximately 1 in 25 inpatients in U.S. acute care hospitals has at least one healthcare–associated...
In-Vitro Diagnostics: An Under-Utilized Tool
Abstract:
With the spread, and impending pandemic, of antimicrobial resistance, public health agencies from around the world are promoting a multifaceted approach to limit the...