The World Health Organization warns at the rising rate of antibiotic resistance

The World Health Organization said on Monday that one in six laboratory -confirmed bacterial infections became resistant to antibiotic treatment, asking for the use of this medication more responsibly. The United Nations organization added in a report based on data from nearly 100 countries between 2016 and 2023, that antibiotic resistance figures rose in about 40% of analyzing samples. The Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a statement that accompanies the report: “Antimicrobial resistance accelerates faster than progress in modern medicine, which threatens the health of families around the world.” He added: “We need to use antibiotics responsibly and make sure that everyone has access to the right medicine, reliable diagnostics and effective vaccines.” Antibiotic resistance worldwide causes antibiotic resistance every year than one million deaths, and although genetic changes in pathogens are part of a natural process, such as abuse and overuse of antibiotics to control infections in humans, animals and plants, accelerate this process. According to the World Health Organization, the highest levels of antibiotic resistance are found in parts of South Asia and the Middle East, where one in three recorded infections is considered resistant to antibiotics. In Africa, the organization confirmed that the rate of antibiotic resistance, for the first recommended treatment for some types of bacteria that cause bloodstream infections, which can cause sepsis, organ failure and death, is now more than 70%. Why do antibiotics fail? The term “antibiotic resistance” refers to a customizable change, or mutation, which occurs in some types of bacteria, which allows them to grow and survive in the presence of antibiotics that can originally kill or stop the growth of these diseases that cause diseases. According to a study published in June, it is also, according to the World Health Organization, one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development that kills about 1.27 million people. According to the study, an international research team discovered about one million potential sources of antibiotics in the natural world, as part of the efforts to combat the antibiotic resistance crisis. In the study, published in the journal Cell, the researchers developed a machine learning approach to identify antimicrobial peptides and created a comprehensive and innovative catalog. There are many studies and research that seek to explain to the failure of antibiotics, including a study by researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland, which challenges the idea of ​​the failure of antibiotic treatment as a result of the presence of a small group of ‘sleeping’ or ‘especially resistant’ bacteria. The study, published in February, showed that environmental conditions, such as nutritional deficiency, are the main reason why bacteria survive despite treatment. In the study, published in the journal Nature, the effectiveness of antibiotics was analyzed in mice infected with Salmonella, as well as in laboratory models that mimic the tissue of the body. The researchers said that this approach shift can lead to the development of more effective treatments against difficult bacterial infections.