Bacterial infections commonly affecting children are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, putting millions of lives at risk.
Antibiotics used to treat common childhood ailments are becoming less and less effective, according to a new study.Many of the antibiotics often used to treat infections like pneumonia, sepsis , and meningitis, which children often contract, are now less than 50 percent effective, the study published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health—Southeast Asia said.The worst affected regions by this reduced efficacy are Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including Indonesia and the Philippines.
one bacterium acquires resistance genes from another source, either through their environment directly from another bacterium or via bacterial virus .'The study, which looked into 11 countries across Southeast Asia and the Pacific, reveals that the antibiotic ceftriaxone is now only effective at treating sepsis and meningitis in newborns in one in every three cases. Another antibiotic, gentamicin, was only effective in one in every 2 cases of newborn sepsis.
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