Antimicrobial Resistance
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789241564748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSummary report published as technical document with reference number: WHO/HSE/PED/AIP/2014.2.
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Global antimicrobial resistance and use surveillance system (GLASS) report 2021
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Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9240027335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe GLASS Report 2021 highlights the new GLASS technical module on antimicrobial consumption surveillance, GLASS-AMC, and summarizes the results of the 2020 AMR and AMC data calls. It also describes the status of development of GLASS activities and WHO AMR-related activities globally and regionally.
Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) Report 2021
Author: World Health Organization
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789241549400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In May 2015, the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly adopted the Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance, which reflects the global consensus that AMR poses a profound threat to human health. One of the five strategic objectives of the Global action plan is to strengthen the evidence base through enhanced global surveillance and research. The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS) has been developed to facilitate and encourage a standardized approach to AMR surveillance globally and in turn support the implementation of the Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. This manual addresses the early phase of implementation of GLASS, focussing on surveillance of resistance in common human bacterial pathogens. The intended readership of this publication is public health professionals and health authorities responsible for national AMR surveillance. It outlines the GLASS standards and describes the road map for implementation of the system between 2015 and 2019. Further development of GLASS will be based on the lessons learnt during this period"--Publisher's description.
Global antimicrobial resistance and use surveillance system (GLASS) report 2022
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2022-12-08
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 924006270X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe WHO 2022 report from the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) marks the end of the first 5 years of early implementation. The report summarizes 2020 data from 87 countries on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria that cause disease in humans, analyses the 2021 AMR rates in the context of the testing coverage of national surveillance, and provides data on antimicrobial consumption (AMC) in humans from 27 countries. For the first time, data are presented in an interactive digital format, with more comprehensive content on the WHO website.
Combating Antimicrobial Resistance and Protecting the Miracle of Modern Medicine
Author: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2022-07-20
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780309269452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe National Strategy for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, published in 2014, sets out a plan for government work to mitigate the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria. Direction on the implementation of this strategy is provided in five-year national action plans, the first covering 2015 to 2020, and the second covering 2020 to 2025. Combating Antimicrobial Resistance and Protecting the Miracle of Modern Medicine evaluates progress made against the national strategy. This report discusses ways to improve detection of resistant infections and estimate the risk to human health from environmental sources of resistance. In addition, the report considers the effect of agricultural practices on human and animal health and animal welfare and ways these practices could be improved, and advises on key drugs and diseases for which animal-specific test breakpoints are needed.
Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries
Author: Aníbal de J. Sosa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-10-08
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 0387893709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAvoiding infection has always been expensive. Some human populations escaped tropical infections by migrating into cold climates but then had to procure fuel, warm clothing, durable housing, and crops from a short growing season. Waterborne infections were averted by owning your own well or supporting a community reservoir. Everyone got vaccines in rich countries, while people in others got them later if at all. Antimicrobial agents seemed at first to be an exception. They did not need to be delivered through a cold chain and to everyone, as vaccines did. They had to be given only to infected patients and often then as relatively cheap injectables or pills off a shelf for only a few days to get astonishing cures. Antimicrobials not only were better than most other innovations but also reached more of the world’s people sooner. The problem appeared later. After each new antimicrobial became widely used, genes expressing resistance to it began to emerge and spread through bacterial populations. Patients infected with bacteria expressing such resistance genes then failed treatment and remained infected or died. Growing resistance to antimicrobial agents began to take away more and more of the cures that the agents had brought.
GLASS manual for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in common bacteria causing human infection
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2023-08-31
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9240076603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this manual is to provide guidance for countries on the methods and metrics for the surveillance of AMR in selected bacteria causing common human infections. This manual is part of a package of documents and tools designed to inform GLASS implementation and describes the objectives and methodology of GLASS AMR, the GLASS component dealing with the global surveillance of AMR in selected bacteria causing common human infections.
Implementing the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2023-12-12
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 924007466X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMechanisms of antibiotic resistance
Author: Jun Lin
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 2889195260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAntibiotics represent one of the most successful forms of therapy in medicine. But the efficiency of antibiotics is compromised by the growing number of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Antibiotic resistance, which is implicated in elevated morbidity and mortality rates as well as in the increased treatment costs, is considered to be one of the major global public health threats (www.who.int/drugresistance/en/) and the magnitude of the problem recently prompted a number of international and national bodies to take actions to protect the public (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/docs/road-map-amr_en.pdf: http://www.who.int/drugresistance/amr_global_action_plan/en/; http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/carb_national_strategy.pdf). Understanding the mechanisms by which bacteria successfully defend themselves against the antibiotic assault represent the main theme of this eBook published as a Research Topic in Frontiers in Microbiology, section of Antimicrobials, Resistance, and Chemotherapy. The articles in the eBook update the reader on various aspects and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. A better understanding of these mechanisms should facilitate the development of means to potentiate the efficacy and increase the lifespan of antibiotics while minimizing the emergence of antibiotic resistance among pathogens.
