Antimicrobial Resistance is a Global Threat
Advancement in contemporary medicine and surgery could not be possible
without use of anti-microbial drugs . They have remarkably reduced the
number of cases with infections and have made it possible to
introduction of complex medical interventions . Replacing damaged body
parts or organs, advanced surgery and care of premature or low birth
weights children are some of the procedures endangered by increasing
spread of resistant organisms . Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a
natural phenomenon, which due to irrational use has been accelerated in
last few decades . Figure 1 presents the key facts about anti-microbial
resistance. Irrational use includes unnecessarily prescribing
antimicrobials in low dosage than required, it also includes use of
antimicrobials in unhygienic hospital settings . High use of
antimicrobial in the animals used for food consumption such as in
poultry and pig farms is supportive for growing AMR, as it has been a
global practice to introduce antimicrobials on large scale to livestock
. By 2030, world-wide it is estimated that the consumption of
antimicrobials in the livestock sector is increase by 66.7 per cent .
International transportation and trading have accelerated the spread of
resistant micro-organisms . Besides, research and development of new
generations of antimicrobial drugs has almost stopped .