June 2017
Antibiotic Resistance
This study, published in The Journal of General Internal Medicine, finds that clinicians who perceive the risks of antibiotics as negligible are more likely to prescribe them than those who consider the potential side-effects a concern and are more mindful of an effect on antibiotic resistance.Read more
June 2017
Researchers from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy find that rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are similar between large tertiary care hospitals and small community hospitals, in a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.Read more
May 2017
Antibiotic Resistance
January 2017
CDDEP Director Ramanan Laxminarayan and experts in antimicrobial resistance at the University of Cape Town and at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare discuss the increasing resistance of bacteria to last resort antibiotic colistin and provide a framework for an international response to colistin...Read more
January 2017
CDDEP Fellow Eili Klein and colleagues studied the relationship between CT contrast media and kidney damage, using emergency department records for a large urban hospital over five years (2009 to 2014).Read more
January 2017
CDDEP Director Ramanan Laxminarayan and co-author Arpita Ghosh have analyzed the factors in India associated with both DPT nonvaccination and DPT vaccination dropouts.Read more
December 2016
CDDEP researchers and collaborators find an association between recurrent emergency department (ED) visits for skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI), sociodemographic factors and comorbidities, using California emergency department discharge data from 2005 to 2011.Read more
November 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
The bimonthly Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) Newsletter, GARPNet News, covers work being done around the world by the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership.Read more
November 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
CDDEP researchers and collaborators have found that infections due to multidrug-resistant and carbapenem-resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa increased dramatically between 1999 and 2012.Read more
October 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
CDDEP Director Ramanan Laxminarayan, in a Lancet comment, highlights the importance of sepsis prevention in newborns, as births in India and other low- and middle-income countries are increasingly institutionalized.Read more
September 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
The bimonthly Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) Newsletter, GARPNet News, covers work being done around the world by the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership.Read more
September 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
Ramanan Laxminarayan and other experts in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) make the case for a Global Antimicrobial Conservation Fund, in an International Journal of Infectious Diseases editorial.Read more
September 2016
A blockade imposed by India in fall 2015, in response to provisions of Nepal’s new constitution, led to a severe fuel crisis, which has caused devastating health consequences for the population of Nepal. BP Koirala Institute of Health Science Assistant Professor Shyam Sundar Budhathoki and CDDEP...Read more
September 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
In a Comment in Nature, CDDEP Director Ramanan Laxminarayan and other experts in antimicrobial resistance suggest that the United Nations should reframe global efforts against antimicrobial resistance by adopting a defensive stance.Read more
September 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
In the first long-term, national-scale study on antibiotic resistance trends in India, based on more than 18,000 isolates collected by a large private diagnostic laboratory network from 2008 through 2014, CDDEP and SRL researchers found high and increasing antibiotic resistance rates among both...Read more
September 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan and Professor Marc Mendelson explain in The Crisis Response Journal why antibiotic resistance is in need of an international response.Read more
August 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
August 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
Strengthening the Role of Laboratories in Tracking Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in East AfricaRead more
August 2016
Study published in Indian Pediatrics examined the health and economic benefits of three decades of polio eradication efforts in India, estimating that India has averted 3.94 million paralytic cases of polio, 393,918 related deaths, and 1.48 billion disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs).Read more
July 2016
The bimonthly Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) Newsletter, GARPNet News, covers work being done around the world by the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership.Read more
July 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
July 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
May 2016
The bimonthly Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) Newsletter, GARPNet News, covers work being done around the world by the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership.Read more
May 2016
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
April 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
March 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
March 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
March 2016
Health and Development
January 2016
Antibiotic Resistance
