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UPSC Issue at a Glance | Antimicrobial Resistance and India
October 25, 2024 7:33 pm
A groundbreaking new study published in the Lancet warns that antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) pathogens could kill over 39 million people by 2050. What is AMR? Why is it a global concern?
Superbugs could kill over 39 million people by 2050; expert explains what they are and how they affect us
September 23, 2024 10:50 am
The research also predicts that a staggering 169 million deaths will be linked to drug-resistant infections by that year.
Cranberries may help combat superbugs, says study
May 31, 2019 11:13 am
Given the popular belief that drinking cranberry juice is helpful against urinary tract infections, the researchers sought to find out more about the berry's molecular properties by treating various bacteria with a cranberry extract.
A growing threat
April 11, 2019 1:43 am
The latest drug-resistant microbe may not be a creation of overmedication, but of the overuse of fungicides in agriculture.
Microbes don't mutate into dangerous superbugs in space: Study
January 09, 2019 4:25 pm
While the team from Northwestern University in the US found that the bacteria isolated from the ISS did contain different genes than their Earthling counterparts, those genes did not make the bacteria more detrimental to human health.
Bone marrow stem cells could defeat drug-resistant tuberculosis
January 09, 2014 7:12 pm
Scientists create 'suicide bomber' that destroys superbug
August 18, 2011 5:01 pm
The specially designed bacteria can detect and destroy a hospital superbug resistant to antibiotics.
Drinking tea,coffee could make us less susceptible to deadly superbug
July 15, 2011 3:22 pm
Consumption of tea or coffee is associated with lower likelihood of MRSA nasal carriage,says Eric
Sex disease gets new 'superbug' avatar
July 11, 2011 8:00 pm
Scientists have found a 'superbug' strain of gonorrhoea,resistant to all recommended antibiotics.
NDM-1 in Pune: Researchers
April 23, 2011 1:11 am
The controversial multi-drug-resistant superbug,the origin of which has been a matter of debate with the Centre taking strong exception to it being named after New Delhi
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