This is the title of a recent article in Internal Medicine Journal by Peter Collignon from the Australian National University and Canberra Hospital. It clearly summarises this important issue, which "is associated with increased deaths and suffering for people", and offers some solutions. Antimicrobials can be controlled by improved infection prevention, more diligent surveillance of usage and resistance patterns (and acting on that surveillance), ensuring that resistant microorganisms are not spread through food and water, and diligent antimicrobial stewardship.
Collignon P. Antibiotic resistance: are we all doomed? Internal Medicine Journal. 2015;45(11):1109-15.
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