What is Antimicrobial resistance?
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR or AR) is the ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication that once could successfully treat the microbe.
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a condition in which bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve over time and cease to respond to antibiotics, making infections more difficult to cure and raising the risk of disease transmission, life-threatening sickness, and death.
AMR is fueling the rise of drug-resistant infections, including drug-resistant tuberculosis,drug-resistant pneumonia and drug-resistant Staph infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA).
These infections are killing and debilitating millions of people annually, and AMR is now a leading cause of death worldwide.
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