The Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), on Friday, celebrated the Antimicrobial Awareness Week with a call for increased awareness on various antimicrobial agents used for the treatment of infections.
WASHINGTON The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new data Tuesday showing that sales of medically important antibiotics approved for use in food-producing animals decreased by three percent between 2019 and 2020.
issue. the other problem that we have, wolf, is that there s not a lot of enthusiasm among most of the major pharmaceutical companies to develop a robust pipeline of new antibiotics. if you look at all of the medical drugs and interventions over a period of time, antibiotic development of new drugs has lagged well behind the development of other types of drugs. so it is a combination of antibiotic misuse or inappropriate use and not having a lot of substitute drugs. so what can we do? the government, private industry, what can we do to fix this because it sounds like potentially there s a disaster out there. well, the cdc is doing a very aggressive job of trying to educate against the use of antibiotics in inappropriate way. there are hospital control guidelines that they have come out with and there s now renewed interest in activity in having the federal government partner in many respects with the