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📅 Published: August 21, 2025

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Researchers reviewed more than 187,000 test results from 205 laboratories, collected between 2016 and 2019 across Burkina Faso, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Drug resistance occurs when bacteria change in ways that make antibiotics—medicines used to treat infections—less effective.

This means that common infections become harder to treat, more expensive to manage, and more likely to spread.

The study examined bacteria that commonly cause serious illness, such asE. coli,Staphylococcus aureus, andKlebsiella pneumoniae.

One of the most concerning findings was that resistance to a powerful group of antibiotics, known as third-generation cephalosporins, was especially high in Ghana and Malawi.

In six countries, more than half of theStaphylococcus aureussamples were resistant to methicillin—an antibiotic commonly used in hospitals.

In Nigeria and Ghana, resistance levels exceeded 70%.

The research also showed that some groups are more likely to have drug-resistant infections.

People over the age of 65 were 28 per cent more likely to have resistant infections than younger adults.

Patients already admitted to hospitals had a 24 per cent higher risk, likely due to increased exposure to antibiotics.

Previous use of antibiotics was also linked to higher resistance.

However, the study also revealed serious gaps.