{"id":10601,"date":"2025-10-22T15:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10601"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:39:56","slug":"resistant-bacteria-are-advancing-faster-than-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/22\/resistant-bacteria-are-advancing-faster-than-antibiotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistant Bacteria Are Advancing Faster Than Antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/resistant-bacteria-are-advancing-faster-than-antibiotics\/\">Wired<\/a> <strong>One in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria tested in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to the World Health Organization. All were related to various common diseases.<\/strong> <strong>The proliferation of<\/strong>\u00a0difficult-to-treat bacterial diseases represents a growing threat, according to the World Health Organization&#8217;s (WHO) Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/13-10-2025-who-warns-of-widespread-resistance-to-common-antibiotics-worldwide\">report<\/a>\u00a0reveals that, between 2018 and 2023,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/antibiotic-resistance\">antibiotic resistance<\/a>\u00a0increased by more than 40 percent in monitored pathogen-drug combinations, with an average annual increase of 5-15 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE PROLIFERATION OF<\/strong>&nbsp;difficult-to-treat bacterial diseases represents a growing threat, according to the World Health Organization&#8217;s (WHO) Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/13-10-2025-who-warns-of-widespread-resistance-to-common-antibiotics-worldwide\">report<\/a>&nbsp;reveals that, between 2018 and 2023,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/antibiotic-resistance\">antibiotic resistance<\/a>&nbsp;increased by more than 40 percent in monitored pathogen-drug combinations, with an average annual increase of 5-15 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data reported by more than 100 countries to WHO&#8217;s Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS), one in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria in 2023 proved&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-antibiotic-resistance-crisis-has-a-troubling-twist\/\">resistant to antibiotic treatment<\/a>, all related to various common diseases globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Superbugs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/9789240116337\/\">this edition of the report<\/a>&nbsp;includes prevalence estimates of resistance to 22 antibiotics used to treat urinary tract, gastrointestinal, bloodstream, and gonorrheal conditions. The analysis focused on eight common pathogens:&nbsp;<em>Acinetobacter spp<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Escherichia coli<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Klebsiella pneumoniae<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Neisseria gonorrhoeae<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>non-typhoidal Salmonella spp<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Shigella spp<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Staphylococcus aureus<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Streptococcus pneumoniae.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired One in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria tested in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to the World Health Organization. All were related to various common diseases. The proliferation of\u00a0difficult-to-treat bacterial diseases represents a growing threat, according to the World Health Organization&#8217;s (WHO) Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report. The\u00a0report\u00a0reveals that, between 2018 and 2023,\u00a0antibiotic resistance\u00a0increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10602,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions\/10602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}