An overview of antimicrobial resistance and its public health significance

Autor(es)

Balsalobre, Livia Carminato ^[1] ; Dropa, Milena ^[1] ; Matte, Maria Helena ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Lab Saude Publ, Fac Saude Publ, BR-01246904 Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Brazilian Journal of Microbiology; v. 45, n. 1, p. 1-5, 2014.
• Citações Web of Science: 27

Resumo

Multiple papers have been published regarding the bacterial resistance theme over the last years. A variety of information has reached general and scientific public, daily bringing up data on new resistant microorganisms, new drugs, outbreaks, epidemiological news, resistance gene dissemination, and the lack of information in a particular field has caught our attention: the public health department. Most of researchers, physicians and government employees interpret the public health field as a separate department, not linked to this antibiotic resistance era that we are living nowadays. In this paper we carefully tried to fill in the blanks between public health and the bacteria resistance issue, also considering historical, social, economical and biological problematic that come with this possible pre-antibiotic era. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 10/08695-0 - Ocorrência da resistência fenotípica e genotípica a tetraciclinas em cepas de Aeromonas hydrophila, Escherichia coli e Klebsiella pneumoniae isoladas de fontes clínicas e ambientais
• Beneficiário: Livia Carminato Balsalobre
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 10/12841-1 - Identificação e localização de genes de resistência a ²-lactâmicos e tetraciclinas, em cepas clínicas e ambientais de Enterobacteriaceae e Aeromonas hydrophila
• Beneficiário: Maria Helena Matte
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular