An overview of antimicrobial resistance and its public health significance

Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Livia Carminato Balsalobre¹  Milena Dropa¹  Maria Helena Matté¹ 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Saúde Pública Laboratório de Saúde PúblicaSão Paulo SP ,Brazil

关键词: antimicrobial resistance;    public health;    pre-antibiotic era;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1517-83822014005000033

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

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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