The emergence of bacterial drug-resistant bacteria that is not matched by the development of new antibiotics. If not addressed, the experts predicted in the next 10 years will be the same condition as the days before penicillin was discovered.
Bacterial infection is immune various types of drugs is a global problem faced by developed countries and developing countries. Thousands of people have been infected and died because there is no medicine that can save him.
In Ursula Theuretzbacher of the Austrian Centre for Anti-infective Agents said one obstacle to developing new antibiotics is a lack of support from the drug industry. The direction of development of new drugs in the industry are often not in line with the needs of the medical world.
"People should have a role to fill that gap, so there are no funds for at least the early stages of research and development," said Dr Theuretzbacher when speaking in the opening of the Interscience Conference on
Antimicrobial Agents and chemotherapy (ICAAC).
Dr Theuretzbacher adding that he is proposing a partnership scheme between the private sector with the public. Scheme that will direct funds from the community to fund research and development of new antibiotics.
He also suggested the existence of more stringent regulations regarding the use of antibiotics. As is known, one of the causes of the emergence of drug resistant bacteria is antibiotic use is excessive and irrational.
Meanwhile, Dr. Gary Noel representing a pharmaceutical company admitted a lack of scientific research on antibiotics. In the last 10 years, the number of such research have declined by 50 percent.
Based on the research done, there are currently around 50 new drug molecules that will be developed to overcome the infection. Of this amount, only about 10 percent actually show promising developments.
"When there are new drugs that arrive at the final stages of development, still it took two to four years for bsia used by the patient," says Dr. Noel is quoted from Ninemsn, Tuesday (14/09/2010).
Antibiotic development issues into the main discussion in the meeting of infectious disease experts that took place in Boston between 12 to 15 September 2010. Approximately 12 000 participants of the meeting warned that the threat of shortages of antibiotics can bring men back to the era before penicillin was discovered.
World Health Organization, WHO has recently issued new warnings related to the existence of Metallo-lactamase gene-1 (NDM-1) which can make bacteria resistant to all types of antibiotics. Journal Lancet reported that the bacteria containing these genes has infected 37 British citizens.
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