Abstract
When the Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, talks about a ‘ticking time bomb’ and the Prime Minister, David Cameron, warns us of the dangers of going back to ‘the Dark Ages’, you know that the problem is serious. Both were referring to the global threat of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is increasing. There are sufficient tales from secondary care to remind us of the doomsday scenario when antibiotics might lose all potency against invading bacteria. In intensive care, the emergence of gram negative septicaemias resistant to the last effective antibiotics, the carbapenem group, has caused considerable alarm.1 In a military setting, multidrug resistant skin infections in healthy army recruits have become a serious concern, sometimes resulting in amputations.2 The rise of antibiotic resistance is …
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