Gunnar Kahlmeter discusses global efforts to tackle antibiotic resistance and the vital role of the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing in creating definitions for a global consensus.
Gunnar Kahlmeter discusses global efforts to tackle antibiotic resistance and highlights the vital role of the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) in creating definitions for a global consensus. Without a consensus, the same microorganism could be deemed ‘susceptible’ in one country and ‘resistant’ in another.
The World Health Organization states that we are in ‘a race against time to develop new antibiotics’.
Central to on-going global efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance is the increasingly successful international standardisation of the definition of resistance. Resistance is ‘the likelihood of failure of therapy with a specific agent for a specific organism’ and it is related to a trait inherent in the microorganism.
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