The article “Meeting the challenge of antibiotic resistance” stresses that vital components of modern medicine such as major surgery, organ transplantations, and cancer chemotherapy will be threatened if antibiotic resistance is not tackled urgently. Concerted global response is needed to address rising rates of bacterial resistance caused by the use and abuse of antibiotics.
The article is free to download from bmj.com.
(http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/sep18_3/a1438?ijkey=CYxxcCjjzZzQxn4&keytype=ref)
Action on Antibiotic Resistance, or ReAct in Sweden has taken the initiative to publish this article. The authors lead by Dr. Otto Cars are members of ReAct`s international secretariat.
* A blog of Indian Initiative for Management of Antibiotic Resistance (IIMAR) managed by Dr. A. J. Tamhankar
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