ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE: A GLOBAL MENACE: ONE HEALTH APPROACH

摘要

Human civilization is at risk of zoonotic infection via direct contact due to close proximity with livestock/poultry/fish, environmental contamination, and intake of contaminated food items which causes enormous economic losses due to loss of man-daysand associated production level. The situation becomes more complicated due to transmission of antimicrobial resistant bacteria into human food chain from livestock or fishes. It creates mortality and extra financial burden associated with increased treatment cost and prolonged hospital stay. Recent estimate indicates about possibility of 10 million deaths every year due to infection with antimicrobial resistant organisms to be occurred by 2050 which is even more than projected death by cancer. This isa multifactorial and complex issue which is associated with several core sectors such ashuman and animal health, fishery, agriculture, environment etc. We have wasted a sufficient time in ‘blame game’ to each other. Time has come to work together under same umbrella with a true ‘One medicine: One world: One health’ approach.Considerableefforts and initiatives are taken by different Universities / Institutes / Private Companies to address the issue to sustain normal production and productivity of animals, poultry and fishes.