Antimicrobial Resistance: Surveillance and New Strategies

Antimicrobial resistance: surveillance and new strategies Summary: Rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the crucial health challenges the world currently faces. Resistant pathogens, including viruses, parasites, fungi, and especially bacteria cause significant morbidity and mortality in human and animal medicine. The progression of AMR has daunting ramifications. Therefore, a globally integrated strategy that includes antibiotics, vaccines, diagnostics, antibodies, natural products, and new tools targeting the host, the microbiome, or delivered by phages, is required to fight AMR. For effective control and contrast, global surveillance is necessary in a One Health approach. Epidemiological studies, researches in retrospective observational trends are the focus to monitor the microbial resistance evolution. Genotypic and phenotypic microbial characterization studies of in vitro and in vivo resistance mechanisms and their transmission are important epidemiological data to describe, monitor, prevent and control the AMR.