Scientists are predicting that we have entered the “End of the Antibiotic Era.” What will this mean for healthcare?
Scientists are predicting that the world has entered the end of an antibiotic era. It does not have news that means well for healthcare. The prediction shows that the world is heading to a post-antibiotic era when the effectiveness of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents will decrease or end.
There is a need for higher surveillance because it means that there could be a specific type of drug resistance. Antibiotic resistance evolves naturally through a selection of random mutation because the cause might by applying evolutionary stress on the population. Research by WHO scientists found high rates of antibiotic resistance by focusing on these bacteria that are responsible for the most common infections.
- Pneumonia
- Urinary tract infections
- Diarrhoea
- Sepsis
- Gonorrhoea