Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance in 2014 and How To Stop It

Antimicrobial resistance is perceived as an increasing threat to health and well-being globally. This is not a new message – it is one that has been repeated many times over the past three decades. What is new today and is the problem reaching a level where front line treatment is regularly failing to control bacterial infections in patients. Currently there is limited research by the major pharmaceutical companies on new drug targets and concomitantly, few new anti-microbial agents under clinical trials.