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Four advances aim to outpace antibiotic resistance and reboot modern medicine

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Source: The Conversation
Four advances aim to outpace antibiotic resistance and reboot modern medicine
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Antibiotic resistance threatens a century of medical progress, but four broad advances are reshaping the landscape: faster, on-site diagnostics; expansion beyond traditional antibiotics through nontraditional therapies (including bacteriophages and microbiome-based approaches and CRISPR antimicrobials); recognizing resistance spreads across ecosystems with One Health approaches; and policy reforms to incentivize antibiotic development, aiming to diagnose earlier, widen treatment options, and safeguard medicines for the future.

Topics:healthscience-tech#antibiotic-resistance#bacteriophage-therapy#diagnostics#microbiome-therapies#one-health#science-tech
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  1. Antibiotic resistance could undo a century of medical progress – but four advances are changing the story  The Conversation
  2. Why antimicrobial resistance is no longer a future threat  Health Data Management
  3. Can clinics, pharmacies and farms get on the same page to tackle AMR?  Hindustan Times
  4. Antibiotics are not a cure-all: A doctor’s appeal to India  Times of India
  5. The Threat of Microbial Resistance: When Medicine Turns Into an Enemy  8am.Media

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