The evolution of antibiotic resistance

  14 September 2019

For most of human history, bacterial pathogens have been a major cause of disease and mortality. The development of antibiotics provided a simple and effective treatment for bacterial infections, and antibiotics have since had huge effects on human health and longevity. These are threatened with the rise of antibiotic resistance (ABR): Many pathogenic bacteria have evolved resistance to the main classes of antibiotics, and multidrug-resistant bacteria have caused untreatable infections. ABR already imposes substantial health and economic burdens, and the global annual cost of ABR could increase to 10 million deaths and US$100 trillion by 2050. Understanding how ABR evolves and spreads is therefore key to improving antibiotic treatment strategies.

 
Further reading: Science
Author(s): R. Craig MacLean, Alvaro San Millan
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