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WHO Issues a List of 12 Most Worrying Drug-Resistant Bacteria (medicalxpress.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the dirty-dozen dept.

Artem Tashkinov quotes a report from Medical Xpress: The World Health Organization has issued a list of the top dozen bacteria most dangerous to humans, warning that doctors are fast running out of treatment options. WHO said the most-needed drugs are for germs that threaten hospitals, nursing homes and among patients who need ventilators or catheters. The agency said the dozen listed resistant bacteria are increasingly untreatable and can cause fatal infections; most typically strike people with weakened immune systems. At the top of WHO's list is Acinetobacter baumannii, a group of bacteria that cause a range of diseases from pneumonia to blood or wound infections. In recent years, health officials have detected a few patients resistant to colistin, the antibiotic of last resort. So far, doctors have been able to treat them with other drugs. But experts worry that the colistin-resistant bacteria will spread their properties to other bacteria already resistant to more commonly used antibiotics, creating germs that can't be killed by any known drugs.

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  1. Actual List by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since the linked article is still a few clicks away from the actual list, which is then a PDF, here is the actual list:

    Priority 1: CRITICAL
    Acinetobacter baumannii, carbapenem-resistant
    Pseudomonas aeruginosa, carbapenem-resistant
    Enterobacteriaceae, carbapenem-resistant, 3rd generation cephalosporin-resistant

    Priority 2: HIGH
    Enterococcus faecium, vancomycin-resistant
    Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant, vancomycin intermediate and resistant
    Helicobacter pylori, clarithromycin-resistant
    Campylobacter, fluoroquinolone-resistant
    Salmonella spp., fluoroquinolone-resistant
    Neisseria gonorrhoeae, 3rd generation cephalosporin-resistant, fluoroquinolone-resistant

    Priority 3: MEDIUM
    Streptococcus pneumoniae, penicillin-non-susceptible
    Haemophilus influenzae, ampicillin-resistant
    Shigella spp., fluoroquinolone-resistant

    Source: http://www.who.int/medicines/p...

  2. Re:Bacteria that worries by slashrio · · Score: 5, Informative

    And please bring back the copper clads in the hospital, door plates, stairs, door knobs, bedsides, chairs etc.
    Copper kills bacteria, including the antibiotic-resistant ones, everybody knows that, except apparently the hospital staffs.
    Silver also, but that might be a bit too expensive.
    Dead bacteria can not be transferred to other people...

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