Antibiotic resistance-the need for global solutions.

Laxminarayan, Ramanan

Duse, Adriano

Wattal, Chand

Zaidi, Anita KM

Wertheim, Heiman FL

Sumpradit, Nithima

Vlieghe, Erika

Hara, Gabriel Levy

Gould, Ian M

Goossens, Herman

Greko, Christina

So, Anthony D

Bigdeli, Maryam

Tomson, Göran

Woodhouse, Will

Ombaka, Eva

Peralta, Arturo Quizhpe

Qamar, Farah Naz

Mir, Fatima

Kariuki, Sam

Bhutta, Zulfiqar A

Coates, Anthony

Bergstrom, Richard

Wright, Gerard D

Brown, Eric D

Cars, Otto

United States

2014-08-08T15:13:23Z

2013-12

The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behaviour at many levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Similarities with climate change are evident. Many efforts have been made to describe the many different facets of antibiotic resistance and the interventions needed to meet the challenge. However, coordinated action is largely absent, especially at the political level, both nationally and internationally. Antibiotics paved the way for unprecedented medical and societal developments, and are today indispensible in all health systems. Achievements in modern medicine, such as major surgery, organ transplantation, treatment of preterm babies, and cancer chemotherapy, which we today take for granted, would not be possible without access to effective treatment for bacterial infections. Within just a few years, we might be faced with dire setbacks, medically, socially, and economically, unless real and unprecedented global coordinated actions are immediately taken. Here, we describe the global situation of antibiotic resistance, its major causes and consequences, and identify key areas in which action is urgently needed.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24252483

S1473-3099(13)70318-9

1474-4457

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/8996

eng

Elsevier BV

Lancet Infect Dis

10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70318-9

Animals

Anti-Bacterial Agents

Bacterial Infections

Climate Change

Drug Resistance, Microbial

Global Health

Health Services Needs and Demand

Humans

Antibiotic resistance-the need for global solutions.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24252483

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Duke

Duke Science & Society

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Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

Sanford School of Public Policy

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