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New Class Of Antibiotics Reported To Be Active Against A Range Of Bacteria

Sewers Of The World Flush With Antimicrobial Resistance

According to a press release, Scientists at Winstar Institute have discovered a new class of compounds that uniquely combine antibiotic killing of pan drug-resistant bacterial pathogens with a simultaneous rapid immune response for combating antimicrobial resistance.  Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been declared as being one of the top 10 global public health threats against humanity. …

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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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