ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE:

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of a microorganism (like bacteria, viruses, and some parasites) to stop an antimicrobial (such as antibiotics, antivirals, and antimalarials) from working against it. As a result, standard treatments become ineffective, infections persist and may spread to others (WHO, 2018).

Source: Modernizing Medical Microbiology

Which Came First, Antibiotics Or Antibiotic Resistance?

As long as antibiotics have existed, bacterial resistance has existed alongside them — but never on such a large scale. “The natural history of antibiotic resistance genes can be revealed through the phylogenetic reconstruction,” the authors of one study write, “and this kind of analysis suggests the long-term presence of genes confer