Many infections are becoming more difficult to treat due to antimicrobial resistance- this is a global health crisis!
In 2016, approximately 700,000 people died due to antimicrobial resistance. If nothing changes, by 2050 antimicrobial resistance will result in 10 million deaths per year. This represents one death every three seconds due to antimicrobial resistance by 2050.
There are specific microbes that are of particular concern. These microbes are extremely difficult to kill because they are resistant to multiple antimicrobial medicines (often because of multiple resistance mechanisms). Some examples of these microbes are given below.
![]() Petri dish growing Candida auris |
Candida auris
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![]() Staphylococcus aureus shown under scanning electron micrograph |
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
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![]() Fluorescent stained Neisseria gonorrhoeae shown under fluorescent microscopy |
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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![]() Clostridium difficile shown under scanning electron microscopy |
Clostridium difficile
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![]() Mycobacterium tuberculosis shown under scanning electron microscopy |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis, WHO
A killer fungus is spreading through UK hospitals, Independent
Gonorrhoea, CDC
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