Strategic approach for combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

World Health Day 2011: combating antimicrobial resistance.

Combating antimicrobial resistance: antimicrobial stewardship program in Taiwan.

Multi-drug-resistant organisms are increasingly recognized as a global public health issue. Healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance are also current challenges to the treatment of infectious diseases in Taiwan. Government health policies and the health care systems play a crucial role in determining the efficacy of interventions to contain antimicrobial resistance. National...

Antimicrobial Resistance in (AMR) Africa: Smoldering in the Shadows

Iruka Okeke has observed the medical tragedies in Africa up close and from an academic perch – a dual perspective that has made her, at 32, one of the leading young scientists to study the continent’s antibiotic resistance threat. Now assistant professor of biology at Haverford College, Okeke serves as APUA chapter advisor for sub-Saharan Africa. Trained initially as a pharmacist, Okeke now stu...

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Why Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurses Need to Have AMR in Their Alphabet.

Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: Policy Recommendations to Save Lives

Antimicrobial resistance is recognized as one of the greatest threats to human health worldwide [1]. Drugresistant infections take a staggering toll in the United States (US) and across the globe. Just one organism, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), kills more Americans every year ( 19,000) than emphysema, HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, and homicide combined [2]. Almost 2 mill...