Even Routine Operations Could Turn Deadly Due to Drug-Resistant Bacteria

The experts added that pharmaceutical companies should be provided better incentives to come up with new antibiotics, stating that no new class of antibiotics has been discovered since 1987 even as new types of infections are being identified almost every year.

"The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behavior at many levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Within just a few years, we might be faced with unimaginable setbacks, medically, socially, and economically, unless real and unprecedented global coordinated actions to improve surveillance and transform the way antibiotics are regulated and developed are taken immediately", lead author of the report, Professor Otto Cars, of Uppsala University in Sweden said.

Source: Medindia