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Antibiotic resistance: calling time on the 'silent pandemic'.

Mendelson, M; Sharland, M; Mpundu, M (2022) Antibiotic resistance: calling time on the 'silent pandemic'. JAC Antimicrob Resist, 4 (2). dlac016. ISSN 2632-1823 https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlac016
SGUL Authors: Sharland, Michael Roy

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Abstract

It is time to stop referring to the antibiotic resistance pandemic as 'silent'. Continuing to use such a term denies the reality that antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, driven by misuse and abuse of antibiotics by humans against microbial ecosystems that we should be living in symbiosis with, is wrong. Both our terminology and who the real 'enemy' is in relation to antibiotic resistance demands serious reconsideration.

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Additional Information: © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: JAC Antimicrob Resist
ISSN: 2632-1823
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
April 2022Published
18 March 2022Published Online
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
PubMed ID: 35310572
Web of Science ID: WOS:000770391800001
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/114264
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlac016

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