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23 May 2021

Morriston Hospital ward ‘colonised’ by drug-resistant bacteria

21 May 2021

The effect of generic market entry on antibiotic prescriptions in the United States

20 May 2021

Wounds, Antimicrobial Resistance and Challenges of Implementing a Surveillance System in Myanmar: A Mixed-Methods Study

15 May 2021

On-Site Genomic Epidemiological Analysis of Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria in Cambodia With Portable Laboratory Equipment

15 May 2021

Using Weibo and WeChat social media channels to assess public awareness and practices related to antimicrobial resistance, China, 2019

15 May 2021

Disease burden of bloodstream infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant bacteria: a population-level study—Japan, 2015-2018

15 May 2021

Progress in cutting hospital prescribing of broad-spectrum antibiotics set back by pandemic

14 May 2021

Prescription Antibiotic Use among the US population 1999-2018: National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys

13 May 2021

Information avoidance behavior: Does ignorance keep us uninformed about antimicrobial resistance?

13 May 2021

Inappropriate antibiotic use in the COVID-19 era: Factors associated with inappropriate prescribing and secondary complications. Analysis of the registry SEMI-COVID

12 May 2021

Antimicrobial stewardship in the Western Cape: A situational analysis of existing facility-level initiatives

12 May 2021

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing results from 13 hospitals in Viet Nam: VINARES 2016–2017

11 May 2021

Successful Use of Telemedicine Infectious Diseases Consultation with an Antimicrobial Stewardship-Led Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Care Bundle

8 May 2021

Clinical diagnosis and treatment of common respiratory tract infections in relation to microbiological profiles in rural health facilities in China: implications for antibiotic stewardship

7 May 2021

Investigating the Rise and Spread of Resistance in Microbial Populations

7 May 2021

The Shareholder Commons to Present Shareholder Proposal Asking McDonald’s to Disclose Systemic Costs of Antibiotics Use in Their Supply Chain

7 May 2021

New Study Sets Baseline to Measure Quality of Antibiotic Prescribing in U.S. Hospitals

6 May 2021

Characterization of Bacterial and Fungal Infections in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 and Factors Associated with Healthcare-associated Infections

4 May 2021

Exploring the practice, confidence and educational needs of hospital pharmacists in reviewing antimicrobial prescribing: a cross-sectional, nationwide survey

4 May 2021

FDA Must Establish Limits for All Animal Antibiotics

3 May 2021

The healthcare costs of antimicrobial resistance in Lebanon: a multi-centre prospective cohort study from the payer perspective

3 May 2021

Predictors of antibiotic prescriptions: a knowledge, attitude and practice survey among physicians in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria

30 April 2021

UN meeting calls for more action, less talk, on antimicrobial resistance

29 April 2021

Effects of a Collaborative, Community Hospital Network for Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Implementation

27 April 2021

Status, challenges and gaps in antimicrobial resistance surveillance around the world

27 April 2021

A multicentre point prevalence survey of patterns and quality of antibiotic prescribing in Indonesian hospitals

24 April 2021

WHO, FAO, and OIE call for stronger coordination in mitigating health threats

24 April 2021

Commission: Antimicrobial resistance among biggest global health threats

23 April 2021

Antibiotic overuse in China: call for consolidated efforts to develop antibiotic stewardship programmes

23 April 2021

High-level Interactive Dialogue on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) – General Assembly, 75th session

22 April 2021

Antibiotic development, stewardship advocates see window of opportunity

21 April 2021

Helping Iraq’s Ministry of Health battle antimicrobial resistance

20 April 2021

Decreased use of broad-spectrum antibiotics during COVID-19 epidemic in South Korea

20 April 2021

A community-driven resource for genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance prediction of Neisseria gonorrhoeae at Pathogenwatch

19 April 2021

Antimicrobial Use, Residues, Resistance and Governance in the Food and Agriculture Sectors, Tanzania

19 April 2021

Laboratory informatics capacity for effective antimicrobial resistance surveillance in resource-limited settings

16 April 2021

Access to antibiotics: not a problem in some LMICs

16 April 2021

Scientists sound warning note over malaria drug resistance in Africa

16 April 2021

Global shortage of innovative antibiotics fuels emergence and spread of drug-resistance

16 April 2021

Alert over shortage of new drugs for ‘world’s most dangerous bacteria’

15 April 2021

Antibiotic resistance: ‘a faceless pandemic’

10 April 2021

Hospital antibiotic prescribing patterns in adult patients according to the WHO Access, Watch and Reserve classification (AWaRe): results from a worldwide point prevalence survey in 69 countries

9 April 2021

Knowledge and attitudes of adolescents towards the human microbiome and antibiotic resistance: a qualitative study

9 April 2021

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at the community level: An urban and rural case study from Karnataka

8 April 2021

The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global antimicrobial and biocide resistance: an AMR Insights global perspective

8 April 2021

2021 Declaration of the European Patient Group on Antimicrobial Resistance

6 April 2021

Finding What Is Inaccessible: Antimicrobial Resistance Language Use among the One Health Domains

6 April 2021

Patterns of dental antibiotic prescribing in 2017: Australia, England, United States, and British Columbia (Canada)

6 April 2021

Hospital antibiotic prescribing patterns in adult patients according to the WHO Access, Watch and Reserve classification (AWaRe): results from a worldwide point prevalence survey in 69 countries

2 April 2021

Changing Patient and Public Beliefs About Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Using a Brief Digital Intervention



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