Drugs used to treat serious bacterial infections in children and newborns may be losing their effectiveness in many countries due to"alarmingly high" rates of antimicrobial resistance , a new study finds.
"Antibiotic resistance is rising more rapidly than we realize," lead study author Dr. Phoebe Williams, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Sydney, said in a statement."We urgently need new solutions to stop invasive multidrug-resistant infections and the needless deaths of thousands of children each year," she said.
In the new study, the authors used statistical models to predict the rates of AMR in the 11 countries based on data from 86 published papers, which collectively included more than 6,600 samples of bacteria. They found that one particular antibiotic, ceftriaxone, is likely to only be able to treat 29% of cases of sepsis and meningitis in newborns in the studied countries.
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