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Dog food sold across Europe contains antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including ‘superbugs’ found in hospital patients

Scienmag

New research being presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), held online this year, reveals raw dog food to be a major source of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, making it an international public health risk.

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Meningitis vaccine comes to the forefront with impressive study results

Pharmaceutical Technology

The results from a trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine , found the vaccine was associated with a strong immune response and good safety profile. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) also highlights the urgent need for a vaccine against the meningococcal X strain.

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Warning of counterfeit ivermectin tablets sold via social media

Sciensano

Investigations show that these counterfeit ivermectin tablets are systematically underdosed or seriously contaminated with bacteria. Although several health authorities warned the public against using this medicine outside clinical trials, the medicine was widely used on a major scale in late 2020 and in 2021.

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International travel may spread destination-specific antimicrobial resistance genes

Scienmag

Travellers abroad may pick up bacteria and other vectors containing genes conferring antimicrobial resistance which remain in the gut when returning to their home country, according to a study published in Genome Medicine.

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Study insights may aid TB vaccine development

Drug Discovery World

Researchers from the University of Oxford investigated whether previously identified correlates of protection associated with risk of full-blown TB disease could also be associated with risk of infection from the bacteria that causes TB. infection in infants who became infected with the bacteria but did not progress to active TB.

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Leading innovators in CRISPR nucleases for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Innovation S-curve for the pharmaceutical industry CRISPR nuclease is a key innovation area in pharmaceutical development CRISPR, which refers to clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, are bacteriophage-derived DNA sequences that had previously infected the prokaryote and are found in the genomes of bacteria and archaea.

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Scientists turned toxic pesticide into treatment against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Scienmag

Petersburg have synthesized nitrogen-containing cyclic compounds that differ only in the relative position of side substituents. Russian scientists from Kaliningrad and St. N-Aryl-C-nitroazoles are an important class of heterocyclic compounds. They are used as pesticides and fungicides.