The importance of MRS A and multiresistant pathogens

摘要

While the early 'antibiotic era' heralded widespread optimism and an assumption that infectious diseases had been conquered, it is clear that we are now struggling to maintain control over the microbial world that we live amongst. Antimicrobials are among the most important advances of modern medicine and have had profound impacts on morbidity and mortality, yet bacteria have demonstrated a high degree of tenacity in the face of antimicrobial challenge, with emergence of antimicrobial resistance posing a major challenge to modern medicine. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens of many types have become well established in human and animal populations, in part from excessive antimicrobial use, and transmission of certain MDR pathogens between animals and humans is of increasing concern.