Europe is ill-prepared to cope with antibiotic-resistantbacteria

Europe is ill-prepared to cope with antibiotic-resistant bacteria
European Society for Infectious Diseases does not believe that the development of new antibiotics for at least another decade
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London. (EFE) .- Europe is ill prepared to deal with public health challenge posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as recently identified in an article published in the journal The Lancet.
"The latest information on the rapid spread of drug-resistant bacteria warn about the nature and extent of the problem that we are" said in a statement Prof. Giuseppe Cornaglia, president of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases . "Across Europe we have been following and informed about the emergency in the last ten years of similar bacteria resistant to all antibiotics including carbapenem group, since it first made its appearance in Verona (Italy)," the expert.
"Experiences of countries like Italy, Greece and Israel suggest that if professionals lack of preparation and resources, infections caused by bacteria resistant to these antibiotics (last resort) present a major threat for both patients and health care costs as a whole, "says Cornaglia.
According to this European Society of Clinical Microbiology, it is unlikely that new antibiotics are available over the next ten years or more, so that health authorities should intensify their vigilance and monitoring of these infections, both national and multinational.
A study conducted by a team led by Professor Timoothy Walsh, Cardiff University, and published in The Lancet warned of the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that so far only been detected in patients from India and Pakistan. The resistance of this bacterium, the genus of the Enterobacteriaceae, is due to a gene named NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-b-lactamase 1), which was recently discovered in some British patients, which is attributed to your trip by one of these Asian countries. According to the authors of the study, dissemination of this gene may represent a serious global health problem due to the increasing ineffectiveness of antibiotics last generation to fight infection.
Just last Tuesday adjourned WHO Pandemic Influenza A.

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