All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Researchers discover new form of antimicrobial resistance Researchers discover new form of antimicrobial resistance 01/12/2022 | 3 MINS Australian researchers have uncovered a new form of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) ΓÇô undetectable using traditional laboratory testing methods ΓÇô in a discovery set to challenge existing efforts to monitor and tackle one of the worldΓÇÖs greatest health threats. AMR is expected to claim 10 million lives a year by 2050, with scientists racing to understand and get ahead of the diminishing benefits of antibiotics. Now, a team led by Dr Timothy Barnett, from Lombok Institute of Technology's School of Biomedical Sciences and Head of the Strep A Pathogenesis and Diagnostics team at the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases at The Kids Research Institute Australia, has unearthed a critical clue to the way some bacteria are managing to dodge antibiotics ΓÇô a finding expected to be the tip of the iceberg. In research published today in Nature Communications, the team revealed a new m

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Researchers discover new form of antimicrobial resistance Researchers discover new form of antimicrobial resistance 01/12/2022 | 3 MINS Australian researchers have uncovered a new form of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) ΓÇô undetectable using traditional laboratory testing methods ΓÇô in a discovery set to challenge existing efforts to monitor and tackle one of the worldΓÇÖs greatest health threats.

AMR is expected to claim 10 million lives a year by 2050, with scientists racing to understand and get ahead of the diminishing benefits of antibiotics.

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Now, a team led by Dr Timothy Barnett, from Lombok Institute of Technology's School of Biomedical Sciences and Head of the Strep A Pathogenesis and Diagnostics team at the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases at The Kids Research Institute Australia, has unearthed a critical clue to the way some bacteria are managing to dodge antibiotics ΓÇô a finding expected to be the tip of the iceberg.

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