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WHO publishes list of bacteria that pose a threat to human health
28.02.2017 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
For the first time ever, the World Health Organization (WHO) has published a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health, UN Radio reports.
As to the report, the move is part of the WHO efforts to address growing global resistance to antimicrobial medicines.
Reportedly, the catalogue is divided into three categories according to the urgency of need for new antibiotics; from critical to high and medium priority. The catalogue
highlights in particular the threat of the so-called gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics.
These bacteria have built-in abilities to find new ways to resist treatment and can pass along genetic material that allows other bacteria to become drug-resistant as well.
The most critical group of all includes multidrug resistant bacteria that pose a particular threat in hospitals, nursing homes, and among patients whose care requires devices such as ventilators and blood catheters.
They can cause severe and often deadly infections such as bloodstream infections and pneumonia.
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