The scourge of antimicrobial resistance: Containing a global crisis
Rajiv T. Erasmus, Chikwelu L. Obi, Sajini Souda · 2024
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Antimicrobial resistance is framed as a global crisis to contain by Rajiv Erasmus, Chikwelu Obi, and Sajini Souda in a 2024 review. Antibiotics made infectious diseases treatable from the 1940s onward. Resistance now threatens that gain: bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve past available drugs. Resistance is a normal process driven mainly by misuse and overuse of antimicrobials in humans, animals, and plants, the authors stress.
A first comprehensive assessment estimated millions of deaths associated with bacterial resistance over three decades. Worldwide antibiotic use rose sharply in the early twenty-first century, largely through overconsumption in developing countries with rising incomes. The review assembles the scale of the threat and the containment agenda. Readers get a compact brief on a slow-moving pandemic.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rajiv T. Erasmus, Chikwelu L. Obi, Sajini Souda |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |