WHO PRIORITY PATHOGENS
- February 22, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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WHO PRIORITY PATHOGENS
TOPIC: Science & Tech
Context- Number of antibiotics, investment not sufficient to minimise threat of wide-spread infection according to a new report. Of the 12 antibiotics companies that have gone public in the past 10 years, only 5 are still active today.
- WHO published its list of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens” – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
Concept-
WHO’s Global Priority Pathogen List?
- This list is a new tool to ensure R&D responds to urgent public health needs.
- The WHO list is divided into three categories: critical, high and medium priority.
- PRIORITY 1: CRITICAL
- Acinetobacterbaumannii, carbapenem-resistant
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa, carbapenem-resistant
- Enterobacteriaceae, carbapenem-resistant, ESBL-producing
- PRIORITY 2: HIGH
- Enterococcus faecium, vancomycin-resistant
- Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant, vancomycin-intermediate and resistant
- Helicobacter pylori, clarithromycin-resistant
- Campylobacter spp., fluoroquinolone-resistant
- Salmonellae, fluoroquinolone-resistant
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae, cephalosporin-resistant, fluoroquinolone-resistant
- PRIORITY 3: MEDIUM
- Streptococcus pneumoniae, penicillin-non-susceptible
- Haemophilusinfluenzae, ampicillin-resistant
- Shigella spp., fluoroquinolone-resistant
- The Indian Pathogen Priority List (IPPL) released by Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare is aligned with WHO’s Global Priority Pathogen List of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.