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Antimicrobial resistance threats in the United States, 2021-2022 fact sheet

July 24, 2024
The new data describe the burden in the two following years, 2021 and 2022, and compares against 2019 data.
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Antibiotic Resistance

New report documents increase in HIV drug resistance to dolutegravir

March 7, 2024
Since 2018, WHO has recommended use of dolutegravir as the preferred first- and second-line HIV treatment for all population groups.
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Antibiotic Resistance

Proteins suggest a path to reduce drug resistance in a form of cancer

Feb. 27, 2024
Proteogenomics provides clues about acute myeloid leukemia.
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Targeting treatment resistance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Feb. 21, 2024
New study from Sylvester Cancer and collaborators shows anti-cancer compound goes beyond current BTK inhibitors.
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Antibiotic Resistance

New and highly infectious E. coli strain resistant to powerful antibiotics

Feb. 16, 2024
More infectious version of bacteria found to have caused two outbreaks in a children’s hospital in China.
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Antibiotic Resistance

World AMR Awareness Week: preventing antimicrobial resistance together

Nov. 20, 2023
AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to the active ingredients, or antimicrobial agents, in medicines used to treat them.
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Addressing STI challenges: A diagnostic update on the current landscape and future strategies

The relentless rise in curable bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) across the United States is an urgent public health crisis.1 In the latest report from the Centers...
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Antibiotic Resistance

NIH investigates multidrug-resistant bacterium emerging in community settings

Sept. 7, 2023
Researchers study confluence of multidrug resistance and hypervirulence among Klebsiella pneumoniae.
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Study reveals new mechanism for rapid evolution of multi-drug resistant infections in patients

July 17, 2023
Findings challenge the traditional view that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) emerges from pathogens that acquire new mutations.
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