Publications

June 2017

Categorical Risk Perception Drives Variability in Antibiotic Prescribing in the Emergency Department: A Mixed Methods Observational Study

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

May 2017

GARPNet News Volume 3 Issue 3

November 2016

GARPNet News Volume 2 Issue 6

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

Multidrug- and Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Children, United States, 1999-2012

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

Antimicrobial resistance—a threat to neonate survival

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

GARPNet News Volume 2 Issue 5

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

A Global Antimicrobial Conservation Fund for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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

Use antimicrobials wisely

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

Trends in antibiotic resistance among major bacterial pathogens isolated from blood cultures tested at a large private laboratory network in India, 2008–2014

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: the need for a global response

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