The infection prevention and control measures in health care facilities are discussed widely. But, the home and everyday life settings are left behind. In fact, these settings are also at the greatest risk of transmission of infections. Above all, these settings have people with a high risk of infection. The…

Access to clean, pure and safe water is the right of an individual. However, industrialization and urbanization has polluted rivers mostly via agricultural runoffs and industrial effluents. Not only this, surprisingly high level of pollution comes from religious ceremonies as well. The act of mass bathing is one of the…

An alarming increase in the rate of antibiotic resistance (ABR) is of international concern. The consumption of antibiotics in human and animal health is relatively well documented. However, there is a lack of data on antibiotic use in crop production. A study carried out by Philip Taylor & Robert Reeder…

The use of antibiotics in the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 caused by novel coronavirus—SARS-CoV-2 is raising. Antibiotics have reasonable roles in the management of COVID-19particularly to treat suspected or confirmed bacterial co-infections. The World Health Organization has advised that antibiotics should not be used for the purposes of treating…

To continue or not to continue the antibiotics is always a topic of discussion among the medical fraternity. Starting an antibiotic course without a need for it is one of the factors leading to antibiotic resistance. Similarly, continuing the antibiotics beyond the need may also lead to the same endpoint.…

Antibiotic resistance has been recognized as a global threat to public health. It is a well-established fact that inappropriate use of antibiotics is the main driver for spreading antibiotic resistance. Inappropriate use of antibiotics is a broad realm- which includes over the counter use of antibiotics, overuse, and misuse of…

  Drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae  is a cause of concern in hospitals, due to a range of acute infections caused by the organism. Some risk factors associated with K. pneumoniae infections are gender, age, hospitalization status, source of domestic water (river, rain, well, bottled, piped, boiled), companion animals (cats, dogs,…

The impact of increasing antibiotic resistance seems devastating. With passing time, the profile of resistant strains is increasing and seems never ending. The situation becomes worse when these resistant bacteria act as secondary infection to hospitalized patients, immunocompromised patients and so on. Thus a need for a better treatment option…

The global threat of antimicrobial resistance can be contained only through the ‘One Health’ approach. This approach basically states that the human, animal, and environmental health are interconnected and the efforts to tackle ABR should be taken at all three levels. Hence, an in-depth understanding of the several routes of…

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)  has been recognized as an emerging and growing problem worldwide. The concept of “One health” clearly highlights the ubiquitous distribution of these resistant organisms in humans, soil, water and environment.  Though the knowledge about these organisms in humans is well versed but literature pertaining to other zones…