This flu can be done away with symptomatic treatment, there is no need to take antibiotics, but right now, people have adopted the practice of taking antibiotics like Azithromycin and Amoxiclav without caring for dose and frequency and stop it once they start feeling better, said internal medicine specialist Pradeep Narayan Sahoo.
Truenat MTB-INH the advanced rapid molecular diagnostics for TB will be introduced in every block of the country, to replace the currently used smear microscopy. The test which is validated by ICMR and approved by CDSCO will immediately be available to the existing 3300 Public Health Centres (PHCs) and Community Health Centres (CHCs) under the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP).
The genome-sequencing test, OTB aims to tackle the looming challenge of drug resistance. It is a single test that identifies all diagnostic information on TB infections. The test screens resistance of 18 listed antibiotics and shares results in just ten to twelve days.
Research demonstrated that the persister population of M. smegmatis generated by antibiotic treatment showed high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which consequently resulted in the rapid emergence of drug resistance to single and multiple antibiotics.
A global non-profit drug developer TB Alliance has tied up with domestic company Macleods Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialise its ‘breakthrough’ drug Pretomanid in high-burden countries, including India.
The spread of superbugs resistant to antimicrobial drugs shows no sign of slowing in Europe, health officials said on Tuesday, making food poisoning and other infections more difficult to treat.
The new bacteria will also clean up ammonia waste, a growing environmental concern.
Less than half the doctors caring for critically-ill patients in intensive care units knew the appropriate selection of antibiotics and how to manage infections, found a survey by the Infectious Diseases Educational Foundation (IDEF) done at the city, ahead of a continuing medical education programme.
Anti-microbial resistance threatens effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infectious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, urinary tract infection (UTI) and even HIV.
The latest research finding comes as a shocker as the bacteria, which apparently have not come into contact with pharma wastes, are also showing resistance to 10 drugs.
The ICMR could not even list one practical application of its hundreds of research papers published in national and international research journals which helped cure any disease, or diagnose it with better accuracy or in less time, or even one new basic, applied or clinical research or innovation that opened a new frontier of scientific knowledge.
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