An overview of antimicrobial resistance and its public health significance.

Braz J Microbiol

Laboratório de Saúde Pública Faculdade de Saúde Pública Universidade de São Paulo São PauloSP Brazil.

Published: February 2015

AI Article Synopsis

  • Recent publications have extensively discussed bacterial resistance, presenting new data on resistant microorganisms and associated outbreaks.
  • A noticeable gap exists in the connection between public health and the ongoing antibiotic resistance crisis, as many professionals view them as separate issues.
  • This paper aims to bridge the divide by exploring the interrelation of public health concerns with bacterial resistance, factoring in historical, social, economic, and biological aspects of the potential pre-antibiotic era.

Article Abstract

Multiple papers have been published regarding the bacterial resistance theme over the last years. A variety of information has reached general and scientific public, daily bringing up data on new resistant microorganisms, new drugs, outbreaks, epidemiological news, resistance gene dissemination, and the lack of information in a particular field has caught our attention: the public health department. Most of researchers, physicians and government employees interpret the public health field as a separate department, not linked to this antibiotic resistance era that we are living nowadays. In this paper we carefully tried to fill in the blanks between public health and the bacteria resistance issue, also considering historical, social, economical and biological problematic that come with this possible pre-antibiotic era.

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