Antibiotic resistance: calling time on the ‘silent pandemic’

It is time to stop referring to the antibiotic resistance pandemic as ‘silent’. Continuing to use such a term denies the reality that antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, driven by misuse and abuse of antibiotics by humans against microbial ecosystems that we should be living in symbiosis with...

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Autores principales: Mendelson, Marc, Sharland, Michael, Mpundu, Mirfin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8931486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35310572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlac016
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description It is time to stop referring to the antibiotic resistance pandemic as ‘silent’. Continuing to use such a term denies the reality that antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, driven by misuse and abuse of antibiotics by humans against microbial ecosystems that we should be living in symbiosis with, is wrong. Both our terminology and who the real ‘enemy’ is in relation to antibiotic resistance demands serious reconsideration.
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spelling pubmed-89314862022-03-18 Antibiotic resistance: calling time on the ‘silent pandemic’ Mendelson, Marc Sharland, Michael Mpundu, Mirfin JAC Antimicrob Resist Viewpoint It is time to stop referring to the antibiotic resistance pandemic as ‘silent’. Continuing to use such a term denies the reality that antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, driven by misuse and abuse of antibiotics by humans against microbial ecosystems that we should be living in symbiosis with, is wrong. Both our terminology and who the real ‘enemy’ is in relation to antibiotic resistance demands serious reconsideration. Oxford University Press 2022-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8931486/ /pubmed/35310572 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlac016 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8931486/
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