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Category: Drug resistance

Posted on February 29, 2020

Presence of colistin-resistant bacteria of food origin in the gut is cause for worry

A small study has found evidence of colistin-resistant bacteria in the gut. 77% of such bacteria were found to be food-acquired. There is a possibility of colistin resistant food Klebsiella…

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Posted on August 31, 2019September 1, 2019

Cheap, filter-based kits developed for TB diagnosis, drug-resistance testing

Three cheap, filter-based kits developed by a multi-institutional team and an industry partner improves the sensitivity of LED fluorescence microscopy by 5%, enable transport of sputum samples at ambient conditions…

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Posted on August 31, 2019

Cholera bacteria from India show high drug-resistance

The 443 cholera-causing Vibrio cholerae isolates isolated from patients from Kolkata and Delhi show very high drug resistance to 22 antibiotics belonging to nine classes. About 99% of the isolates…

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Posted on May 24, 2019May 24, 2019

IMTECH’s novel compound treats colistin-resistant bacteria

A novel compound isolated from a soil bacterium by IMTECH researchers shows promise in killing Gram-negative bacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae and E. coli) that are resistant to colistin. Compared with colistin,…

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Posted on November 24, 2018November 28, 2018

NCCS finds mass bathing during Kumbh Mela alters bacterial load, diversity

During Kumbh Mela in 2015, microbial diversity dropped by nearly 37.5% while bacterial load increased by about 130-fold at five bathing sites in Nashik from where samples were collected prior…

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Posted on September 29, 2018

Podcast: How Klebsiella bacteria develop colistin resistance

  Abdul Ghafur explains how the team deciphered the mechanism by which Klebsiella bacteria develop resistance to colistin, a last-line antibiotic. Mutations and insertional inactivation of the mgrB gene, which is present…

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Posted on September 29, 2018September 30, 2018

Mechanism of colistin resistance in food Klebsiella bacteria unravelled

Researchers found colistin-resistant bacteria in 49% vegetable, meat samples in Chennai. They have for the first time deciphered the mechanism by which food Klebsiella bacteria develop resistance to colisitin, a last-line antibiotic.…

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Posted on August 25, 2018

Podcast – Finding new drug target for Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria

 IIT Roorkee researchers have identified the RNA protein Hfq as a potential drug target. Once the Hfq gene is removed, the Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria become less virulent, more susceptible to environmental…

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