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The problem of resistance to antibiotics usually achieve social consciousness in Scattershot way through when his spoiled with salmonella, which can treat common drugs, for example. But its hard to get a complete picture of the extent to which some infections become resistant to treatment. Now Expanding Cure, resistance to antibiotics policy effort based at the Center for Disease Control dynamics, economic policy, designed to illustrate

problem in the U.S. and around the world using maps and graphs. Data from individual countries and the United States, from surveillance network that collects information from hundreds of laboratories, hospitals across the country. This gives the regional resistance of certain bacteria to specific antibiotics. This is a public health emergency, the director of extension Cure. We can not assume that we will have a cheap, effective antibiotics ever. Some towers are currently working poorly or not at all, he says. Of course,

methicillin-resistant staphylococcus gold. >> << That about 51% of Staphylococcus aureus samples in the U.S. are resistant to methicillin and similar drugs. This puts us behind other developed countries of Europe in Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands the figure is 2% or less. Map above shows a high rate of MRSA in some areas of the U.S., with 69% of staph infections in the East South Central region of the country are resistant to methicillin and similar drugs, compared to 40% in New England. Future iterations of maps illustrating the use of antibiotics, which is a determinant of resistance, says Laxminarayan. (

, What antibiotics for children rates remain excessively high, despite the decline since the early 1990's.), But in the south, warm weather can also play a role in some types of bacteria thrive, he says. People are usually most concerned about MRSA, says Laxminarayan. But what these maps show that there are several mistakes that are less known, but perhaps more problematic for a doctor for treatment and for patients in hospital, he said. One example is Acinetobacter baumannii, the so-called gram-negative organisms. Laxminarayan says that there are very few drugs, especially new drugs to treat the infection bacteria. (Health Blog

about the problem of resistance to antibiotics among these organisms).

This tool also allows users to track the spread of resistant bacteria in the U.S. over time. Megan strattera MakArdl claims that antibiotics non-renewable resource. We must treat them as oil field, or endangered species. Instead, we treat them as consumer electronics. She writes about various ideas about how to reward conservation, including potential changes in the patent system. Map: Expansion >> << Cure