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Emerging Health Emergencies: Antimicrobial Resistance

The reach of antibiotics in treatment is cannot be quantified. Antibiotics as well as other antimicrobial agents speedily became the mainstay of modern medicine; being used in the treatment a numerous communicable and non communicable diseases such as of Tuberculosis, Chlamydia and countless other clinical interventions, facilitating and enabling safe treatment in these interventions. In fact, infections such as syphilis, formerly treated with arsenic compounds, became more safely treated with penicillin. What is antimicrobial resistance?  According to the WHO "Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)  occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death" . As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat. Why is antimicro