Antimicrobial resistance: global concern and the critical need for new antibiotics

Antimicrobial Resistance: A Cause for Global Concern

The three day conference on Antimicrobial Resistance: A Cause for Global Concern was organized from 6-8th February, 2012 by the Department of Microbiology and Fermentation Technology, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHIATS) [Deemed-to-be-University], Allahabad, India. The conference received an overwhelming response from three hundred participants including s...

Growing antibiotics resistance and the need for new antibiotics.

Growing antibiotic resistance is a global phenomenon in both developed and developing countries. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) alone infects more than 94 000 people and kills nearly 19,000 in the US every year, more deaths than are caused by HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, emphysema, and homicide combined(1). Penicillin-resistant streptococcal pneumonia and vancomycin resist...

Antimicrobial resistance: global problems need global solutions.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 18 March 2013 198 5 67-67 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2013 www.mja.com.au Editors Choice uch has been written about antimicrobial resistance and the measures we must take to prevent an era in which infections become untreatable. Despite these longstanding concerns, there has been a steady rise in antimicrobial resistance globally, threateni...

The need for a global response to antimicrobial resistance.

Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health threat that no country is exempt from. The problem is complex and is influenced by many interconnected factors such as poverty, self-medication and misdiagnosis. A global response is essential and urgent.

Antimicrobial resistance: a new beginning and the need for action.