原文! The World is Running Out ofAntibiotics, WHO Report Confirms 7 hours ago Most of the drugs currently in the clinicalpipeline are modifications of existing classes of antibiotics and are onlyshort-term solutions. The report found very few potential treatment options forthose antibiotic-resistant infections identified by WHO as posing the greatestthreat to health, including drug-resistant tuberculosis which kills around250,000 people each year. "Antimicrobial resistance is a globalhealth emergency that will seriously jeopardize progress in modernmedicine," says Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO."There is an urgent need for more investment in research and developmentfor antibiotic-resistant infections including TB, otherwise we will be forcedback to a time when people feared common infections and risked their lives fromminor surgery." In addition to multidrug-resistanttuberculosis, WHO has identified 12 classes of priority pathogens – some ofthem causing common infections such as pneumonia or urinary tract infections –that are increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics and urgently in need ofnew treatments. The report identifies 51 new antibioticsand biologicals in clinical development to treat priority antibiotic-resistantpathogens, as well as tuberculosis and the sometimes deadly diarrheal infectionClostridium difficile. Among all these candidate medicines,however, only 8 are classed by WHO as innovative treatments that will add valueto the current antibiotic treatment arsenal. There is a serious lack of treatmentoptions for multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant M. tuberculosis andgram-negative pathogens, including Acinetobacter and Enterobacteriaceae (suchas Klebsiella and E.coli) which can cause severe and often deadly infectionsthat pose a particular threat in hospitals and nursing homes. There are also very few oral antibiotics inthe pipeline, yet these are essential formulations for treating infectionsoutside hospitals or in resource-limited settings. "Pharmaceutical companies andresearchers must urgently focus on new antibiotics against certain types ofextremely serious infections that can kill patients in a matter of days becausewe have no line of defense," says Dr Suzanne Hill, Director of theDepartment of Essential Medicines at WHO. To counter this threat, WHO and the Drugsfor Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) set up the Global Antibiotic Researchand Development Partnership (known as GARDP). On 4 September 2017, Germany,Luxembourg, the Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland and the United Kingdomof Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Wellcome Trust pledged more than |