Emerging Infectious Diseases

Antimicrobial Resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most serious global public health threats in this century. Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of a microorganism (bacteria, virus, fungi, and parasite) to resist the effects of a drug, it is a serious, complex and costly public health problem. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the principal public health problems of the 21st century that threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi no longer susceptible to the common medicines used to treat them.