India’s latest ICMR Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Report highlights a concerning trend where many common infections are becoming increasingly difficult to treat as widely used antibiotics lose effectiveness. Analysis of nearly one lakh hospital-based infection samples shows that drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria continue to dominate. E. coli , the most common cause of UTIs and abdominal and bloodstream infections, shows declining susceptibility to strong antibiotics.
Klebsiella pneumoniae , a major cause of pneumonia and sepsis, is resistant to piperacillin-tazobactam in nearly three-fourths of cases and to carbapenems in most samples, leaving clinicians with limited treatment options. ICUs are seeing the sharpest impact of antimicrobial resistance. Acinetobacter baumannii now shows exceptionally poor response to meropenem, and resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa continues…
