Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a fast-evolving global public health crisis. The UK Chief Medical Officer calls it a catastrophe ranking with terrorism and climate change. Its consequences are an unenviable return to a pre-antibiotic dawn, rendering many routine infections untreatable, and putting much major surgery, organ transplantation and cancer chemotherapy out of safe reach. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for implementation of programs to contain AMR (Box 1). These initiatives are supported by several multi-national and national surveillance and stewardship programs. Some have shown decreasing antibiotic use and consequent decreased resistance. Australia has been part of this, although we still have no nationally coordinated surveillance system for antimicrobial use or resistance.
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