PPT-Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial

Microorganisms evolution and antibiotic resistance I am learning What microbes are in general and about bacteria specifically What evolution is and how the environment causes bacteria to adapt to survive. Easow Chiranjoy Mukhopadhyay PG Shivananda Department of Microbiology Manipal College of Medical Sciences Pokhara Nepal Received January 13 2005 Background objectives Shigellae play an important role as a causative organism of acute gastroenterit N. gonorrhoeae. . A Review. INTRODUCTION. Progressive antimicrobial resistance in . Neisseria gonorrhoeae . is an emerging public health threat. The Public Health Agency of Canada (the Agency) released updated recommendations in July 2013 for the diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and reporting of gonorrhea. nfections . O. ccurring . in . Hospitals. Darline. Dupree. PhD Student. Walden University. PUBH 8165-2. Instructor: Dr. Robert Marino. Winter 2012. Hospital Board of Directors. OSHA. County Public Health Departments. Antimicrobial resistance is both a global and local problem. The link between antibiotic use and resistance. Addressing antimicrobial resistance in Australia. Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS). Antibiotic Awareness Week 2017.. What are antibiotics?. Definition: chemicals produced by one microorganism to kill or inhibit the growth of other microorganisms. Now included the semi-synthetic antibiotics. Effective against bacteria. . Dr Andrea Ammon, ECDC Director, . 27 June 2017, European Parliament. 0. 200. 400. 600. 800. 1000. 1900. 1920. 1940. 1960. 1980. 2000. 1918. Influenza pandemic. 1924. Plague: last human-to-human transmission. % . survivors. Penicillin. Untreated. Days. Penicillin increased the chance of survival from 10% to 90%. Patients with. pneumonia . and bacteria . in the blood. Adapted from Austrian . et al.. Ann. Int. Med 1964; . Ireland. Quarter 1-4 2017. 20. th. June 2018. KEY POINTS, 2017 (General). Increasing numbers of invasive infections in recent . years due to the following pathogens. : . K. . pneumonaie. , . P. . aeruginosa, S. . Insert your organisation’s name here . Insert presenter’s name here . #. worldantimicrobialawarenessweek. Overview. Antibiotics are . vital life-saving . medicines . Antimicrobial resistance is both a global and local problem. Therapy. The development of antimicrobial drugs represents one of the most important advances in therapeutics, both in the control or cure of serious infections and in the prevention and treatment of infectious complications of other therapeutic modalities such as cancer chemotherapy, immunosuppression, and surgery.. RESISTANCE Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance Co - Chairs: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Food and Drug Administration National Institutes of Health Participating Agencie s Hand Hygiene. I am learning…. Why I should wash my hands. When to wash my hands. How to wash my hands . What are Microbes ?. Microbes are tiny living things . They are so small that they cannot be seen by the naked eye. CC – 14/ UNIT - 7. Azidothymidine Antibiotic Resistance. Zidovudine (AZT). A synthetic pyrimidine (thymidine) analogue. AZT is converted to its triphosphate form by cellular thymidine kinase. It binds preferentially to HIV – reverse transcriptase resulting in chain termination. . Insert LOGO. DISCLAIMER. . This document was developed by the Surveillance Subcommittee (SS) of the Arizona Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Advisory Committee. SS is a multidisciplinary committee representing various healthcare disciplines working to define and categorize the strength of evidence for preventing healthcare-associated infections. Their work was guided by the best available evidence at the time this document was created. .