Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology
Year : 2017, Volume : 10, Issue : 6
First page : ( 1886) Last page : ( 1890)
Print ISSN : 0974-3618. Online ISSN : 0974-360X.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0974-360X.2017.00331.6

Antibiotic resistance-reasons and the most common resistant pathogens - A review

Sreeja M.K.*, Gowrishankar N.L., Adisha S., Divya K.C.

Prime College of Pharmacy, Erattayal, Palakkad, Kerala

*Corresponding Author E-mail: sreepharma85@gmail.com

Online published on 22 September, 2017.

Abstract

One of the greatest discoveries of mankind in the twentieth century was antibiotics. Antibiotics have saved a number of patient's lives, and also played a vital role in achieving major advance in medical science. But now antibiotic resistance had become major clinical and public health problems all over the world. Today we can list a number of organisms that are resistant to not one but two different antibiotics. There are a number of factors that cause to the resistance and it includes the misuse of antibiotics, development and spread of resistant genes and resistant bacteria. we can overcome and prevent the antibiotic resistance by targeting resistance mechanism, which will make the novel antibiotic more effective and sustainable.

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Keywords

Antibiotics, Antibiotics resistance, Antimicrobial resistance, Multidrug resistance.

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