The contrast is alarming, experts say. In the United States, judicial decisions and regulatory announcements are becoming daily fodder for news mills as the evidence mounts against subtherapeutic farmyard use …

The federal government must crackdown on the use of antibiotics such as cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones within the nation’s meat industry because of the threat that antibiotic resistance poses to public …

The federal government’s oversight of antimicrobial resistance is sorely plagued by deficiencies, according to a draft report prepared by officials at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The internal …

Fifteen months after the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) terminated its national committee dedicated to tackling antibiotic resistance, the federal government continues to resist calls for a new national …

Microbiologists are urging that Canada ramp up its surveillance of another strain of bacteria — carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC) — by screening Canadians who’ve been hospitalized in the United States, Israel and …

The World Health Organization (WHO) and public health agencies around the world must significantly ramp up screening and surveillance of a new breed of drug-resistant bacteria carrying the gene for …

Research indicates that carbapenum-resistant bacteria — which represent a disastrous threat for clinicians — is now prevalent in South Asia and moving into Europe and North America in the same …

The last remaining major category of antibiotics, a class known as carbapenums, is already succumbing to antibiotic-resistant bacteria in places such as the US northeast. “The carbapenums are the last …

ESBL-induced drug resistance in much of the subcontinent, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, has become common, says David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory at the …

Pointing to the global dissemination of a category of bacterial plasmids that are impervious to cephalosporins along with several other antibiotics,David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference …