Durch Bakterien verursachte Infektionen, die nicht mehr auf viele Antibiotika reagieren, steigen in den USA alarmierend, wie neue föderale Daten zeigen. Zwischen 2019 und 2023 stiegen diese schwer zu behandelnden Infektionen um fast 70%, was weitgehend von Stämmen mit dem NDM-Gen getragen wurde

Infections caused by bacteria that no longer respond to many antibiotics are climbing at an alarming pace in the U.S., new federal data shows.

Between 2019 and 2023, these hard-to-treat infections rose nearly 70%, fueled largely by strains carrying the NDM gene, according to researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

These so-called “nightmare bacteria” resist nearly every treatment, including carbapenems — which are considered the last line of defense. That leaves doctors with only two costly drugs that must be delivered intravenously.

“The rise of NDMs in the U.S. is a grave danger and very worrisome,” David Weiss, an infectious disease researcher at Emory University in Atlanta, told The Associated Press. He was not involved in the study.

The new CDC report — published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine — found that the rate of carbapenem-resistant infections rose from just under 2 cases per 100,000 people in 2019 to more than 3 per 100,000 in 2023. That’s a 69% increase.

Cases tied to the NDM gene saw the sharpest jump: From about 0.25 per 100,000 people in 2019 to 1.35 in 2023. That’s a rise of more than 460%.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-02404

Life uh… finds a way.

Let’s hope we do to. Anyone come across current research on ways to address anti-biotic resistance?