Antibiotic resistance : World on cusp of ’post-antibiotic era’
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857015
[scientists] identified bacteria able to shrug off the drug of last resort - colistin - in patients and livestock in China.
They said that resistance would spread around the world and raised the spectre of untreatable infections.
It is likely resistance emerged after colistin was overused in farm animals.
Bacteria becoming completely resistant to treatment - also known as the antibiotic apocalypse - could plunge medicine back into the dark ages.
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Prof Laura Piddock, from the campaign group Antibiotic Action, said the same antibiotics “should not be used in veterinary and human medicine”.
#Antibiotiques : Un gène de #résistance alarme les chercheurs - Savoir : Sciences - tdg.ch
▻http://www.tdg.ch/savoirs/sciences/gene-resistance-alarme-chercheurs/story/28167389
Un gène rendant certaines #bactéries résistantes à une famille d’antibiotiques, dits « de dernier recours », a été retrouvé sur des animaux et des patients chinois. Des chercheurs appellent à restreindre l’utilisation de ces antibiotiques en médecine vétérinaire.