World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022: Article collection
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.
As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat.
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is taking place this year from 18 to the 24 November 2022. It is a global campaign that is celebrated annually to improve awareness and understanding of AMR and encourage best practices among the public, One Health stakeholders and policymakers, who all play a critical role in reducing the further emergence and spread of AMR.
To mark WAAW, we have compiled this collection of recent articles on antimicrobial resistance from our journals International Health and Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
Transactions
Molecular and clinical characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates collected at a tertiary hospital in northern China
Hua Wang, Zhi Yan, Lan Mu, Xiang-Yu Gao, Jia-Ying Li, Zhi-De Hu, Jun-Rui Wang, Wen-Qi Zheng
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trac059,
https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trac059
Published: 25 June 2022
Molecular characterisation of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates: preliminary experience from a tertiary care teaching hospital in the Himalayas
Mohit Bhatia, Varun Shamanna, Geetha Nagaraj, Dharmavaram Sravani, Pratima Gupta, Balram Ji Omar, Deepika Chakraborty, K L Ravikumar
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 116, Issue 7, July 2022
https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab189
Published: 13 January 2022
Worrying levels of antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria isolated from cell phones and uniforms of Peruvian intensive care unit workers
Barbara Ymaña, Nestor Luque, Joaquim Ruiz, Maria J Pons
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 116, Issue 7, July 2022
https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab186
Published: 05 January 2022
Antimalarial drug resistance markers in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and HIV-negative adults with asymptomatic malaria infections in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Ifeyinwa Chijioke-Nwauche, Mary C Oguike, Chijioke A Nwauche, Khalid B Beshir, Colin J Sutherland
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 115, Issue 5, May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab061
Published: 06 April 2021
Key considerations on the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on antimicrobial resistance research and surveillance
Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Gian Maria Rossolini, Constance Schultsz, Evelina Tacconelli, Srinivas Murthy, Norio Ohmagari, Alison Holmes, Till Bachmann, Herman Goossens, Rafael Canton, Adam P Roberts, Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Cornelius J Clancy, Benedikt Huttner, Patriq Fagerstedt, Shawon Lahiri, Charu Kaushic, Steven J Hoffman, Margo Warren, Ghada Zoubiane, Sabiha Essack, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Laura Plant
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 115, Issue 10, October 2021
https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab048
Published: 27 March 2021
International Health
Continuous surveillance of drug-resistant TB burden in Rwanda: a retrospective cross-sectional study
Yves Habimana-Mucyo, Augustin Dushime, Patrick Migambi, Innocent Habiyambere, Jean Claude Semuto Ngabonziza, Tom Decroo
International Health, ihac039
https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihac039
Published: 02 June 2022
Molecular characterization and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial isolates present in tap water of public toilets
Rajanbir Kaur, Drishtant Singh, Anup Kumar Kesavan, Rajinder Kaur
International Health, Volume 12, Issue 5, September 2020
https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihz074
Published: 06 November 2019
Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health: challenges for the next decade
Anthony Costello, Zainab Naimy
International Health, Volume 11, Issue 5, September 2019
https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihz051
Published: 01 January 2019
Science, innovation and society: what we need to prepare for the health challenges of the twenty-first century?
Jeremy Farrar
International Health, Volume 11, Issue 5, September 2019
https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihz047
Published: 01 January 2019
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