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BioTech CEO Cites Antimicrobial Resistance ‘Arms Race’ Advancements as the Post-Antibiotic Era Ensues

BioTech CEO Cites Antimicrobial Resistance ‘Arms Race’ Advancements as the Post-Antibiotic Era Ensues

Expert warns of the severely urgent need for advanced interventional non-antibiotic approaches to control infectious diseases, including multiple-drug resistant ‘super-bugs,’ in order to ‘safeguard & sustain humanity’; cites emerging SciTech innovations making strides to address deadly AMR. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is “one of the greatest threats to society, human and animal health, and economic prosperity. …

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Sewers Of The World Flush With Antimicrobial Resistance

Sewers Of The World Flush With Antimicrobial Resistance

International research has created a global map of antimicrobial resistance by analyzing samples of untreated domestic sewage to identify antimicrobial resistant genes in a metagenomic analysis of sewage samples across 60 countries to characterize abundance and diversity of AMR, as published in Nature Communications. Systematic differences in the diversity and abundance of AMR gene between …

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