Bacteria becoming more resistant to antibiotics, report finds

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E. coli, golden staph and the bacteria causing gonorrhoea are growing increasingly resistant to antibiotics, a report into Australia's health system has found.

The bacteria causing gonorrhoea and meningitis are among the numerous dangerous organisms growing increasingly resistant to common antibiotics in Australia, a new report suggests.

The report suggests not all health care workers are tackling the problem equally, with a rise in prescriptions in hospitals and significant inappropriate use in aged care homes. Two in five Australians were recipients of at least one of the 26.5 million antimicrobial prescriptions dispensed in 2017.But overall use of antibiotics in the community fell between 2015 and 2017, the first decline in 20 years.

 

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