Antimicrobial Resistance: Is the World UNprepared?
editorial · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 27618631.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002130 and PMC identifier 5019402.
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Abstract
Long Blurb: On September 21st 2016 the United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York, United States to tackle a looming and seemingly inevitable global challenge with the potential to threaten the health and wellbeing of all people: antimicrobial resistance. In an Editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on the challenge of coordinating the response to antimicrobial resistance in order to ensure the viability of current antimicrobials and the development of new therapies against resistant pathogens. Short Blurb: In this month's Editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting which convenes to discuss the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance.
Medical subject headings
- Anti-Infective Agents
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- United Nations