The story of antibiotic resistance to date might be characterised as being a combination of complacency, misunderstanding and economic factors, all of which have conspired to ensure that bacteria have had the opportunity to steal a march on the human race and defeat our hitherto cunning development and application of antimicrobials.
While media focus can be fickle in so many ways there is no doubt that their attention to the growing awareness of the rise in antibiotic resistance has helped public, professional and now political immediacy on this life-threatening eventuality. Indeed it is calculated that currently in the order of 25,000 people die each year in Europe alone from infections resistant to antibiotics. So, what can we do about it and can we develop new antimicrobials to help us in the battle against bacterial mutations that create resistance?
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