The group looked at soil bacteria compounds, known to effectively prevent other bacteria growing around them. The research partnership - involving the University of Warwick, and spanning institutions from Australia, Canada and the USA - has discovered a compound which could translate into a new drug lead for TB. A new treatment for tuberculosis (TB) is set to be developed using compounds derived from bacteria that live in soil - according an international collaboration of researchers, including the University of Warwick. It is estimated more than 250,000 TB deaths were from drug-resistant infections. In 2015 there were an estimated 10.4 million new cases of TB and 1.4 million deaths from the disease.
WHO publishes list of bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently needed
These bacteria have become resistant to a large number of antibiotics, including carbapenems and third generation cephalosporins – the best available antibiotics for treating multi-drug resistant bacteria. WHO publishes list of bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently needed27 February 2017 | GENEVA - WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens" – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health. The list highlights in particular the threat of gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The most critical group of all includes multidrug resistant bacteria that pose a particular threat in hospitals, nursing homes, and among patients whose care requires devices such as ventilators and blood catheters. WHO's first global priority pathogen list is an important new tool to secure and guide research and development related to new antibiotics."collected by :Lucy William
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