TITLE: ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE, CAN WE RISE TO THE CHALLENGE?

摘要

Resistance to antibiotics was recognised soon after the introduction of penicillin in the 1940's. For the following 40 years the development of new antimicrobial agents kept pace with the emergence of resistance. That has now changed and we are potentially facing a future where untreatable infections become common place, where we return to pre-antibiotic era challenges in patient management.