Topic: Drug resistance
World Zoonoses Day 2022
World Zoonoses Day is celebrated on July 6, across the world annually. Why is World Zoonoses Day is celebrated? The World Zoonoses Day is celebrated to spread awareness...
WHO on Corona Virus: Virus is not yet pandemic
The World Health Organization on February 4, 2020 announced that the Corona virus disease has not yet become pandemic. The disease has so far killed 425 people and...The researchers at IIT Kanpur develops a novel molecular framework for superbugs
The researchers at the IIT Kanpur and the Lucknow-based Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) have designed a novel molecular framework to destroy superbugs, which are becoming increasingly resistant...Union Government bans Colistion in animal food industry
In a bid to preserve the drug’s efficacy in humans, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of Colistin and its...Indian scientists at CCMB discovers a new enzyme “Murein Endopeptidase” to break bacterial cell wall
Scientists at the Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) have discovered a new enzyme ‘Murein Endopeptidase’ which helps in breaking cell walls of bacteria. This discovery offers...ESKAPE
ESKAPE is an acronym standing for bacterial pathogens commonly associated with antimicrobial resistance. ESKAPE is group of pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and...
Odilorhabdins: New class of antibiotics to fight drug resistance discovered
Researchers have discovered new class of antibiotics called odilorhabdins or ODLs that fights drug resistance. It was produced by symbiotic bacteria found in soil-dwelling nematode worms that colonise...
