Mumbai: Antibiotics didn’t
work in one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infec-tions across the world, accor-ding to the World Health Or-ganisation’s Global Antimi-crobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) released on Monday.
Analysing data from 104 countries, the study found re-sistance to 40% of monitored antibiotics rose by 5-15% an-nually between 2018 and 2023. Annual reports from the Indi-an Council of Medical Rese-arch (ICMR), which contribu-te to GLASS studies, have of-ten underlined the threat of antibiotic resistance. E. coli infections in India’s ICUs in 2023 showed a “poor respon-se” to antibiotics such as cefo-taxime, ceftazidime, cipro-floxacin and levofloxacin
Satinder Duggal
