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The End of Antibiotics? Drug-Resistant Superbug Reaches the US
For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could mean “the end of the road” for antibiotics.
The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Defense Department researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. The authors wrote that the discovery “heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria.”
NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase)
http://www.medicinenet.com/ndm-1/article.htm
NDM-1 stands for New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase, which is an enzyme produced by certain strains of bacteria that have recently acquired the genetic ability to make this compound. The enzyme is active against other compounds that contain a chemical structure known as a beta-lactam ring. Unfortunately, many antibiotics contain this ring, including the penicillins, cephalosporins, and the carbapenems.
Emergence of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase (KPC)-Producing Bacteria
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075864/
Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing bacteria are a group of emerging highly drug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli causing infections associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Once confined to outbreaks in the northeastern United States (US), they have spread throughout the US and most of the world. KPCs are an important mechanism of resistance for an increasingly wide range of Gram-negative bacteria and are no longer limited to K pneumoniae.
PBS Frontline: Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria
The NIH, in pursuit of Precision Medicine, tries to avoid ghosts of its past
The NIH, in pursuit of precision medicine, tries to avoid ghosts of its past
NIH Director Francis Collins, seen here with President Obama, says the Precision Medicine Initiative will have to be implemented quickly.
HENRY KOTULA 