Antimicrobial Resistance A Global Report on Surveilliance



Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) within a wide range of infectious agents is a growing public health
threat of broad concern to countries and multiple sectors. Increasingly, governments around the world
are beginning to pay attention to a problem so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern
medicine. A post-antibiotic era—in which common infections and minor injuries can kill—far from being
an apocalyptic fantasy, is instead a very real possibility for the 21st century.

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