Antimicrobial resistance: Article collection 2024

24 Sep 2024

This week the UN General Assembly is convening a High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) for the second time. This meeting is an important opportunity for world leaders to collectively address the looming threat AMR poses to global health, food security, and achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

To help raise awareness of the threat of AMR, we have compiled this collection of recent articles on the topic from our two journals. 

AMR threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi.

AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result, the medicines become ineffective and infections persist in the body, increasing the risk of spread to others.
 

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

Aligning antimicrobial resistance surveillance with schistosomiasis research: an interlinked One Health approach 
Angus M O'Ferrall, Janelisa Musaya, J Russell Stothard, Adam P Roberts
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 8, August 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae035

Antimicrobial resistance genetic determinants and susceptibility profile of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from clinical samples in a tertiary hospital in Ogun State, Nigeria
Oluwatoyin Olawunmi Adeyelu, Edidiong Nkiruka Essien, Valentine Adebote, Abraham Ajayi, Utibeima Udo Essiet, Adeyemi Isaac Adeleye, Stella Ifeanyi Smith
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 7, July 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae012

National health insurance scheme improves access and optimization of antimicrobial use in the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Temitope O Obadare, Taiwo O Ogundipe, Adeyemi T Adeyemo, Caleb M Aboderin, Doyin R Abiola, Naheemot O Sule, Aaron O Aboderin
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 3, March 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad083

Worrying levels of antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria isolated from cell phones and uniforms of Peruvian intensive care unit workers
Barbara Ymaña, Nestor Luque, Joaquim Ruiz, Maria J Pons
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 116, Issue 7, July 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab186

Antimalarial drug resistance markers in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and HIV-negative adults with asymptomatic malaria infections in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Ifeyinwa Chijioke-Nwauche, Mary C Oguike, Chijioke A Nwauche, Khalid B Beshir, Colin J Sutherland
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 115, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 531–537, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab061

International Health

Antibiotic prescription sources and use among under-5 children with fever/cough in sub-Saharan Africa 
Getayeneh A Tesema, Godness K Biney, Vicky Q Wang, Edward K Ameyaw, Sanni Yaya
International Health, ihae026, https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihae026
Published: 28 March 2024

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency 
Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski
International Health, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihad101

A four-drug standardized short regimen for highly resistant TB in South-West Nigeria 
Muse O Fadeyi, Tom Decroo, Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez, Bolaji Ahmed, Aderonke Jinadu, Osman El-Tayeb, Wasiu Adebola, Aderemi Kehinde, Lutgarde Lynen, Tinne Gils
International Health, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2024,  https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihad023