Lancet Commission 2013: Antibiotic Resistance and Global Solutions
2013
This Lancet Commission describes the global status of antibiotic resistance, its major causes and consequences, and key areas for urgent action. The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behavior at many levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Many efforts have been made to describe the many different facets of antibiotic resistance and the interventions needed to meet the challenge. However, coordinated action is largely absent, especially at the political level, both nationally and internationally. Antibiotics paved the way for unprecedented medical and societal developments, and are today indispensable in all health systems. Within just a few years, we might be faced with dire setbacks, medically, socially, and economically, unless real and unprecedented global coordinated actions are immediately taken. In 2020, authors of the Commission offered a review of progress since the initial report.
Lancet Commission 2013: Antibiotic Resistance and Global Solutions
Source:
Laxminarayan R et al. Antibiotic Resistance—The Need for Global Solutions. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2013; 13(12): 1057–1098. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70318-9.