Antibiotics are major weapons in the fight against bacterial infections. However, antibiotics are increasingly losing efficacy due to the emergence of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is a most serious threat, that besides limiting our option to treat bacterial infections, also restricts modern medical therapies and treatments, such as chemotherapy, transplantation and surgery.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an insidious threat and antibiotic bacteria already cause more than 1,27 million deaths every year. AMR is not only a threat to humans, but also to animals, plants and the environment - it affects us all - worldwide. ...
