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Novel antibiotic for UTIs passes first clinical trial

A new antibiotic that represents an entirely novel chemical class has passed it first clinical test. The drug, gepotidacin, cured urinary tract infections (UTIs) so well in two large trials that researchers stopped them early. www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-new-antibiotic-covid-19-antarctica-and-venus-mission-deferred? Its manufacturer, GSK, says it plans to seek approval of the drug from the US Food and Drug Administration …

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Diphtheria threat increasing as infection evolves antimicrobial resistance

Diphtheria’s threat is increasing as the easily-preventable infection, usually treated with antibiotics and vaccines, is evolving with antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) strains, posing a risk that the disease may once again become a major global challenge.  This is according to an international team of researchers from the UK and India. They conducted the study using genomics to …

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Can bacterial infection increase heart disease risk?

Bacterial infections, along with diabetes, can notably increase the risk of heart disease, claims a study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine. “We were able to study the association between antibiotic purchases, endotoxemia and incident coronary heart disease in one of the largest cohorts of individuals with type 1 diabetes,” said the study’s authors …

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Antibiotics abuse: India among the worst

Global consumption of antibiotics increased by forty percent between 2000 and 2015, according to a study by researchers at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The relative consumption of “Watch” antibiotics was found to be highest in Japan, at an alarming 83 percent. India followed in as …

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