Antimicrobial Threat Discussed

Antimicrobial resistance-a threat to neonate survival.

Improvements in child survival have contributed much of the gains in life expectancy at birth during the last two decades. At a global level, neonatal mortality has decreased from 36 to 19 deaths per 1000 livebirths between 1990 and 2012. However, the reduction in neonatal mortality between 1990 and 2015 (47%) has lagged behind that of postneonatal under-5 years mortality (58%) globally. The Ev...

Discussed posters

In the last decade many advances have been made in understanding how HIV-1 interacts with macrophages (MØ) and dendritic cells (DC). Based on the notion that HIV-2 is a more attenuate model of infection, we proposed to explore the mechanisms of HIV-2 interaction with MØ and DCs. With this aim, we studied the efficiency of cis-infection of MØ and DCs. A cohort of 7 HIV-1 and 7 HIV-2 primary isol...

The Roommates Problem Discussed

The stable roommates problem as originally posed by Gale and Shapley [1] in 1962 involves a single set of even cardinality 2n, each member of which ranks every other member in order of preference. A stable matching is then a partition of this single set into n pairs such that no two unmatched members both prefer each other to their partners under the matching. However, a simple counterexample q...

Antimicrobial resistance: addressing the threat to global health. Preface.

Antimicrobial resistance—a threat to the world’s sustainable development

This commentary examines how specific sustainable development goals (SDGs) are affected by antimicrobial resistance and suggests how the issue can be better integrated into international policy processes. Moving beyond the importance of effective antibiotics for the treatment of acute infections and health care generally, we discuss how antimicrobial resistance also impacts on environmental, so...