Antimicrobial resistance: learning lessons from antiparasitic, antibacterial and antimycobacterial drug resistance in low-income settings

Update on Antibacterial Resistance in Low-Income Countries: Factors Favoring the Emergence of Resistance

Antimicrobial resistance has increased drastically in recent years in the developing countries, and it has rapidly become a leading public health concern. The prevalence of antimicrobial resistance varies greatly between and within countries and between different pathogens. However, overall a trend to the increase of the resistance to those antimicrobial agents more often used in these countrie...

Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Peru

To the Editor: In Latin American countries, rates of antimicrobial drug resistance among bacterial pathogens are high. Data on these rates in Peru are incomplete (1), and no institution in Peru has participated in multinational surveillance studies (2– 4). To document the antimicrobial drug resistance profi le of key pathogens, we organized a surveillance network of clinical laboratories from 9...

Drug Resistance in Antimicrobial Therapy

Correlations between Income Inequality and Antimicrobial Resistance

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to investigate if correlations exist between income inequality and antimicrobial resistance. This study's hypothesis is that income inequality at the national level is positively correlated with antimicrobial resistance within developed countries. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Income inequality data were obtained from the Standardized World Income Inequality...

What are the threats from antimicrobial resistance for maternity units in low- and middle- income countries?

Wendy J. Graham*, Emma Morrison, Stephanie Dancer, Kaosar Afsana, Alex Aulakh, Oona M. R. Campbell, Suzanne Cross, Ryan Ellis, Siyoum Enkubahiri, Bazezew Fekad, Giorgia Gon, Patrick Idoko, Jolene Moore, Deepak Saxena, Yael Velleman and Susannah Woodd Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; The Soapbox Collaborative, Aberdeen, UK...