Super BUG's

SUBJECT: Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) at its 50th annual conference, running from September 12-14.
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A Conference in Boston opened today. It is anticipated that "antibiotic resistant Super Bugs" will be the main topic throughout the get together. Members of 50 year old institution -- ICACC; and World Health Org -- WHO; and "two three Nobel Laurettes" will attend the symposium. AFP reports " ... Drug resistance in bacteria, blamed on excessive and improper use of antibiotics, is not new, and health experts warn of an increasingly dangerous environment where the problem can flourish. ... "

Unfortunately, the various groups are calling for improved governmental regulating in use of antibiotics. In a time when freedoms are disappearing and government has its hand in everyone's pockets ... "[Super] Bug is a "very serious" threat - calls for a focus on wiser use of antibiotics. ... "There is still time and plenty of opportunities to fix things," he said, noting that another key measure is the more controlled use of antibiotics in animals for human consumption, notably poultry. And:

"We need to improve the control of antibiotics, we need to improve the control of counterfeit drugs, and the government regulations for the use of antibiotic needs to be improved," he said.

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Excerpt | " ... Microbiologists focus on 'rise of superbugs' September 13 2010 at 03:18AM ...
"There is still time and plenty of opportunities to fix things," he said, noting that another key measure is the more controlled use of antibiotics in animals for human consumption, notably poultry.

ICAAC marks its half century with the publication of a book containing key findings in the fight against microbial infections.

Last month, an international study found that many hospital infections already difficult to treat have become even more resistant to drugs due to the NDM-1 gene that can jump across different species of bacteria.

Researchers led by Cardiff University's Timothy Walsh - who first uncovered the gene - and Walsh and Madras University's Karthikeyan Kumarasamy said the new class of superbugs resistant to almost all antibiotics were being carried from South Asia to Britain by plastic surgery patients.

"Unprecedented air travel and migration allow bacterial plasmids and clones to be transported rapidly between countries and continents," mostly undetected, they warned in the study published in The Lancet. - AFP (Read Entire Article Source. September 13 2010)

NEXT WEEK: How will Airports worldwide screen queuing Airline passengers for bacterial plasmids and clones?