Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microbes evolve mechanisms that protect them from the effects of antimicrobials (drugs used to treat infections)...

An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms (microbicide) or stops their growth (bacteriostatic agent). Antimicrobial medicines can be grouped...

Multiple drug resistance (MDR), multidrug resistance or multiresistance is antimicrobial resistance shown by a species of microorganism to at least one...

Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) refers to coordinated efforts to promote the optimal use of antimicrobial agents, including drug choice, dosing, route...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) directly kills about 1,600 people each year in Australia. This is a currently serious threat to both humans and animals...

and some bacteria have evolved resistance to them. The World Health Organization has classified antimicrobial resistance as a widespread "serious threat...

of resistance that pathogens or cancers have "acquired", that is, resistance has evolved. Antimicrobial resistance and antineoplastic resistance challenge...

Nevertheless, Davies has written and spoken extensively about the rise of antimicrobial resistance in medicine and animal husbandry, including carrying out work to...

Antibiograms help the clinician to select the best empiric antimicrobial therapy based on the local resistance patterns until the laboratory test results are available...

It caused more than 100,000 deaths worldwide attributable to antimicrobial resistance in 2019. MRSA is any strain of S. aureus that has developed (through...

P, Ekta G, Bordon J (January 2013). "Klebsiella pneumoniae antimicrobial drug resistance, United States, 1998-2010". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 19...

Bruning O, et al. (June 2008). "Effect of Veillonella parvula on the antimicrobial resistance and gene expression of Streptococcus mutans grown in a dual-species...

aureus is one of the leading pathogens for deaths associated with antimicrobial resistance and the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains, such as methicillin-resistant...

as the antimicrobial spectrum based on data collected in vitro. Narrow-spectrum antibiotics have low propensity to induce bacterial resistance and are...

antimicrobial use. National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance in Agriculture was set in place to contain the rise in antimicrobial resistance and...

developed resistance to nalidixic acid because both drugs inhibit topoisomerase, a key enzyme in DNA replication. Due to cross-resistance, antimicrobial treatments...

and addressed a wide range of issues including vaccinations, antimicrobial resistance, health coverage, tobacco use, research methodology, climate change...

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also called host defence peptides (HDPs) are part of the innate immune response found among all classes of life. Fundamental...

has identified antimicrobial resistance as one of the three greatest threats to human health. IDSA has identified antimicrobial resistance as a priority...

to September 2016. He chaired the UK's Independent Review into Antimicrobial Resistance from 2014 to 2016. He was the chairman of the Council of Chatham...

country is available from Statistics Norway. Overall the risk of antimicrobial resistance in the food supply chains is "negligible". Specifically cattle...

is provided below. These bacteria have shown antibiotic resistance (or antimicrobial resistance). NDM-1 is an enzyme that makes bacteria resistant to a...

national approach to combat antimicrobial resistance. The Nepalese government has developed a National Antimicrobial Resistance Containment Action Plan as...

antibiotics there has been a considerable increase in the evolution of antimicrobial resistance factors, now outpacing the development of new antibiotics. Examples...

Antimicrobial Resistance consists of world leaders and experts from across sectors working together to accelerate political action on antimicrobial resistance...

battlefield in the war against biofilm-induced antimicrobial resistance: insights from reviews on antibiotic resistance". Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 13: 1327069...

ceftaroline. Antimicrobial resistance is the driving force for the development of new antimicrobial agents. The complexity and diversity of resistance mechanisms...

transporters The small multidrug resistance family (SMR) The resistance-nodulation-cell division superfamily (RND) The multi antimicrobial extrusion protein family...

management and control the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Owing to the widespread macrolide resistance, samples that are positive for Mgen should...

The theme of World Health Day 2011, marked on 7 April 2011, was "antimicrobial resistance and its global spread" and focused on the need for governments...