FDA finds some improvement in antibiotic resistance trends

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released its latest National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) Integrated Report. This report highlights antimicrobial resistance patterns in bacteria isolated from humans, retail meats, and animals at slaughter. Specifically, the report focuses on major foodborne pathogens that are resistant to antibiotics that are considered important to human medicine, and on multidrug resistant pathogens described as resistant to three or more classes of antibiotics. Read more at the Food and Drug Administration website…