Antibiotic resistance is a bacterial defense mechanism against antibiotics. It can rapidly spread from one bacterium to another. This makes antibiotics increasingly ineffective.
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The level of resistances against antibiotics is rising. This is a great challenge for physicians and scientists. Scientists within the DZIF research field “Healthcare-associated and Antibiotic-resistant bacterial Infections” aim to develop new strategies against the development and spread of resistance.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most urgent challenges facing global health and development. Described as a “creeping pandemic” by the G7 forum of leading economic nations, AMR occurs
Professors Ivo Boneca (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Mark Brönstrup (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, and German Center for Infection Research), and Christophe Zimmer (University of
According to the WHO, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the ten greatest threats to global health. In the EU alone, around 35,000 people die every year from antibiotic-resistant infections. The
The project deals with the epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli, the most common acute foodborne diarrhoeal pathogens in humans worldwide. In addition to acute diarrhoeal diseases, these bacteria may also be involved in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases in humans. Antibiotic ...
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