Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: World Health Organization, full page: (LINK).]
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The evolving threat of antimicrobial resistance - Options for action
Authors: World Health Organization
Publication details
Number of pages: 120
Publication date: 2012
Languages: English
ISBN: 978 92 4 1503181
Downloads: The evolving threat of antimicrobial resistance - Options for action - English, pdf, 2.10Mb
Overview
Antibiotic resistance development is a natural process of adaption leading to a limited lifespan of antibiotics. Unnecessary and inappropriate use of antibiotics favours the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria. A crisis has been building up over decades, so that today common and life-threatening infections are becoming difficult or even impossible to treat. It is time to take much stronger action worldwide to avert an ever increasing health and economic burden. A new WHO publication "The evolving threat of antimicrobial resistance - Options for action" describes examples of policy activities that have addressed AMR in different parts of the world. The aim is to raise awareness and to stimulate further coordinated efforts.
-Authors: World Health Organization
Publication details
Number of pages: 120
Publication date: 2012
Languages: English
ISBN: 978 92 4 1503181
Downloads: The evolving threat of antimicrobial resistance - Options for action - English, pdf, 2.10Mb
Overview
Antibiotic resistance development is a natural process of adaption leading to a limited lifespan of antibiotics. Unnecessary and inappropriate use of antibiotics favours the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria. A crisis has been building up over decades, so that today common and life-threatening infections are becoming difficult or even impossible to treat. It is time to take much stronger action worldwide to avert an ever increasing health and economic burden. A new WHO publication "The evolving threat of antimicrobial resistance - Options for action" describes examples of policy activities that have addressed AMR in different parts of the world. The aim is to raise awareness and to stimulate further coordinated efforts.
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