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| Half-time for NRP 72 |
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The National Research Programme "Antimicrobial Resistance" (NRP 72) reached its halfway mark in 2019: the first research results are out, and work on the programme synthesis has already started. |
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| "We don’t know which transmission routes are crucial." |
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Jean-Yves Madec, newly-elected member of the NRP 72 Steering Committee, about the need for One Health research on antimicrobial resistance. |
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| Reducing antibiotics in animal breeding – also in Asia and Africa |
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In many countries resistance in livestock is on the rise. Researchers from NRP 72 are looking for suitable methods to stop this development. |
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| Approaching doctors first |
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The overprescription or misprescription of antibiotics by doctors contributes to the problem of antibiotic resistance. |
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| "Without the membrane it's game over for bacteria." |
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A study just published in the journal "Nature" describes the discovery of a new class of antibiotics. Co-author Sebastian Hiller from the Center for Molecular Life Sciences of the University of Basel explains what this means. |
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| Resistance makes use of sleeping bacteria |
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Bacteria can evade antibiotics by going into a kind of deep sleep, then pass on resistance genes even if they are not resistant themselves. Importantly, these so-called persistent bacteria are not only responsible for recurring infections, they also serve as a reservoir for the transmission of resistance, as researchers from ETH Zurich discovered in an NRP 72 project. |
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| Newsletter: StAR - Switzerland's strategy to combat antibiotic resistance |
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Doctors, vets, farmers and environmental experts must work together to curb antibiotic resistance. With this in mind, the Federal Council approved a broad-based national strategy to combat antibiotic resistance (StAR) in November 2015. The new StAR newsletter will regularly inform you about the latest developments, insights and strategic implementation measures. |
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