WHO urges attention to four new antibiotic-resistant superbugs

lWHO warned about four new superbugs which have dangerous resistance to antibiotics and can cause death, making treatment difficult.

That’s why they once again called on the international population avoid self-medication because it causes new bacteria to become more powerful.

What are the new superbugs according to WHO?

World Health Organization (WHO) published a new list of priority bacterial pathogens by 2024, which eliminated five pathogen-antibiotic combinations that had been included since 2017, but added four new superbugs:

Enterobacteriaceae: resistant to third generation cephalosporins.

Streptococci group A: resistant to macrolides.

Streptococci group B: resistant to penicillin.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis: resistant to rifampicin.

In the high priority sectionThese include salmonella and shigella, with high incidence, according to WHO, in developing countries. and others that frequently cause health care point infections, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Staphylococcus aureus.

What are the most dangerous superbugs in the world according to WHO?

For several years now,The following superbugs are no longer easy to controlbecoming the pathogens responsible for the most deaths worldwide, including the following:

coli

Staphylococcus aureus

Klebsiella pneumonia

Pneumococcus

Acinetobacter baumannii

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Enterococcus faecium

Salmonella typhimurium

Neisseria gonorrhea

Staphylococcus epidermidis

Clostridia difficult

According to WHO, The emergence of new superbugs is caused by the overuse of antibiotics. likely during the Covid-19 pandemic when these types of drugs were overused to treat the disease.

What is antibiotic resistance?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Antibiotic resistance occurs when microbes can no longer respond to antibiotics. which were originally created to eliminate them.

Many people believe that antibiotic resistance is developed by the human body, but this is not true. Rather, this phenomenon refers to the fact that microbes create their own resistance.

which causes them to multiply rather than be destroyed, causing potentially fatal infections.

In fact, experts say that infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are very difficult, and in some cases impossible, to treat.