{"id":1178,"date":"2022-04-07T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2022-04-07T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:26:20","slug":"drug-resistance-is-a-prolific-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Drug Resistance is a Prolific Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bacterial infections that don\u2019t respond to antibiotics are becoming a major cause of death around the world.&nbsp; The British Medical Journal <em>Lancet<\/em> recently reported 1.3 million deaths globally due to antibiotic resistant infections.&nbsp; This translates to 16.4 deaths per 100,000 people.&nbsp; This is twice as many people than those who died from malaria (the fifth leading cause of death worldwide). &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bacteria that are the mischief makers include E. coli, Staph aureus, Clostridium difficile, Klebsiella spp, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus faecium and Enterobacteriaceae.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two main causes of the problem are bacteria\u2019s innate ability to mutate to drug resistant forms and overuse of antibiotics.&nbsp; The overuse phenomenon is in both people and animals.&nbsp; The industrial nature of food production utilizes antibiotics in the food for chickens, turkeys, cows, pigs and cattle with the subsequent transfer to humans via their diet.&nbsp; The other overuse is in medical treatment of people.&nbsp; It is estimated that at least 2\/3 of antibiotics prescribed for humans are not needed as the illness is viral in nature, not bacterial.&nbsp; Also, even in true bacterial infections such as pneumonia and urinary infections the length of antibiotic prescriptions is greater than necessary to resolve the infection.&nbsp; In this regard a recently published research study by John\u2019s Hopkins University found a similar clinical cure rate in children with community acquired pneumonia with a five-day antibiotic regimen versus a standard ten-day regimen.&nbsp; Multiple research studies have found similar results in uncomplicated urinary tract infections.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacterial infections that don\u2019t respond to antibiotics are becoming a major cause of death around the world.&nbsp; The British Medical Journal Lancet recently reported 1.3 million deaths globally due to antibiotic resistant infections.&nbsp; This translates to 16.4 deaths per 100,000 people.&nbsp; This is twice as many people than those who died from malaria (the fifth leading cause of death worldwide). &nbsp; The bacteria that are the mischief makers include E. coli, Staph aureus, Clostridium difficile, Klebsiella spp, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1178\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[569,568],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antibiotic-overuse","tag-drug-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}