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Review
. 2022 Mar 18;4(2):dlac016.
doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlac016. eCollection 2022 Apr.

Antibiotic resistance: calling time on the 'silent pandemic'

Marc Mendelson  1 , Michael Sharland  2 , Mirfin Mpundu  3
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Review

Antibiotic resistance: calling time on the 'silent pandemic'

Marc Mendelson et al. JAC Antimicrob Resist. .

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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