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Groundbreaking Study on Resistant Bacteria
A research team at the Department of Clinical Research has been able to show in a study that bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics can sometimes remain in patients' bodies for years, repeatedly causing infections, infecting other people and even sharing their genetic resistance mechanisms with each other.
First author Dr. phil. Lisandra Aguilar Bultet concludes that such people act as a reservoir for the bacteria in question. According to group leader Prof. Dr. med. Sarah Tschudin Sutter, the findings of the study will have an impact on treatment approaches, as there is a high probability that the administration of antibiotics will not be successful even in the case of later illnesses.
The results are also linked to another study by the University of Basel, which showed that the prescription of antibiotics increased massively in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, even though this medication has no effect on the virus. As Tschudin Sutter, Aguilar Bultet and the team at the DKF have now shown, strict antibiotic prescribing practices are even more important than previously assumed.
Read more:
- The article in the news of the University of Basel
- Prof. Dr. med. Sarah Tschudin Sutter's research group at the DKF
- The article in nature communications
- Antibiotic consumption rose massively in the first year of the pandemic