A New Tool to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #657
A New Tool to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #657 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #657 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Resistance to antibiotic is a worldwide problem which has almost become a health emergency. It is more appropriately termed as Antimicrobial Resistance – AMR. It is estimated that AMR became the cause of death of 1.29 million patients last year, and by 2050, 10 million patients are expected to lose life because the treatment with antibiotics would not work due to resistance. There are multiple reasons for antimicrobial resistance, the most important of which is inappropriate use of antibacterial drugs/ antibiotics. The resistance development does not remain local...