Raising awareness and mitigating risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance during the upcoming 2024 Gangasagar religious mass gathering

Avinash Sharma^{1

2}, Bhavuk Gupta¹, Abhrajyoti Ghosh³, Shilpi Sharma⁴, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales^{5

6}, Alimuddin Zumla⁷, Ziad A Memish^{8

9}

Affiliations

¹ DBT-National Centre for Cell Science, Complex, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India.
² School of Agriculture, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.
⁴ Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, 110016, India.
⁵ Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
⁶ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁷ Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London; and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁸ Research and Innovation Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health & College of Medicine, Al Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁹ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory, University, Atlanta, USA.

Editorial

Avinash Sharma et al. New Microbes New Infect. 2023.

. 2023 Dec 19:56:101213.

doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101213. eCollection 2024 Jan.

Avinash Sharma^{1

2}, Bhavuk Gupta¹, Abhrajyoti Ghosh³, Shilpi Sharma⁴, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales^{5

6}, Alimuddin Zumla⁷, Ziad A Memish^{8

9}

¹ DBT-National Centre for Cell Science, Complex, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India.
² School of Agriculture, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.
⁴ Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, 110016, India.
⁵ Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
⁶ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁷ Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London; and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁸ Research and Innovation Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health & College of Medicine, Al Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁹ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory, University, Atlanta, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: AMR awareness; Antimicrobial resistance; Gangasagar; Mass gatherings; Religious event.

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