{"id":22447,"date":"2026-07-21T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/?p=22447"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:34:30","slug":"antibiotic-resistance-in-children-reaches-global-scale-alarming-results-of-a-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/antibiotic-resistance-in-children-reaches-global-scale-alarming-results-of-a-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotic resistance in children reaches global scale: alarming results of a new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"3\"><span class=\"\">According to the largest global study published in the medical journal <\/span><i class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"71\">JAMA<\/i><span class=\"\">,<\/span><span class=\"\"> bacterial resistance to antibiotics is rising across all regions of the world,<\/span><span class=\"\"> leaving children increasingly vulnerable to even common and simple infections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><span class=\"\">Researchers from the Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute (MCRI) and the University of Sydney analyzed more than 106,<\/span><span class=\"\">000 infectious samples from patients under the age of 18 across 82 countries (data spanning 2004\u20132022).<\/span><span class=\"\"> The findings revealed that newborns in intensive care units and residents of low-resource countries suffer the most from highly resistant bacteria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><span class=\"\">According to a mathematical forecasting model,<\/span><span class=\"\"> resistance to &#8220;last-resort&#8221; antibiotics will reach a critical threshold by 2035.<\/span><span class=\"\"> For instance,<\/span><span class=\"\"> in the case of <\/span><i class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"157\">Acinetobacter baumannii<\/i><span class=\"\">,<\/span><span class=\"\"> which causes pneumonia and sepsis,<\/span><span class=\"\"> resistance could reach 82%.<\/span><span class=\"\"> Meanwhile,<\/span><span class=\"\"> for <\/span><i class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"260\">Klebsiella<\/i><span class=\"\">,<\/span><span class=\"\"> the primary pathogen behind urinary tract infections,<\/span><span class=\"\"> this rate is projected to increase to 35%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><span class=\"\">Scientists emphasize that the problem is further compounded by pharmaceutical companies&#8217; lack of interest in developing child-specific pediatric dosages and formulations,<\/span><span class=\"\"> forcing doctors to often rely on more toxic,<\/span><span class=\"\"> expensive,<\/span><span class=\"\"> or difficult-to-administer medications.<\/span><span class=\"\"> In low-income countries,<\/span><span class=\"\"> resistance is driven by over-the-counter sales and self-medication,<\/span><span class=\"\"> whereas in high-income nations,<\/span><span class=\"\"> it stems from the overuse of drugs in agriculture and veterinary medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/jul\/21\/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-increasingly-leaving-children-vulnerable-to-common-infections-global-study-finds?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;CMP=soc_567&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawTL_sFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFnUEptMzVWTnZBNFBLREhKc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsHl4zmo7LzCHfHU0KJuBZntwC9AsDqmQuVyTx7h-JMS6pZ0veChIFzVffNQ_aem_GqIRTc6wBSoJ52wyjpM6Zg#Echobox=1784565114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the largest global study published in the medical journal JAMA, bacterial resistance to antibiotics is rising across all regions of the world, leaving children increasingly vulnerable to even common and simple infections. Researchers from the Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute (MCRI) and the University of Sydney analyzed more than 106,000 infectious samples from patients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1594,1665,1587,1657],"tags":[3999],"class_list":["post-22447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-public-health","category-research","category-science","tag-antibiotikebisadmi-rezistentoba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22453,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447\/revisions\/22453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}