A true global health emergency, antibiotic resistance threatens to make simple cuts and diseases that are easy to treat deadly once again. Bacteria, viruses, parasites and other microbes are

always changing to ensure their survival. Some have adapted so well to medical treatment that drugs commonly used to prevent or kill them are no longer effective. These microbes cause

drug-resistant infections. Their ability to survive medicines used against them is called antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In the case of bacterial pathogens, for which antibiotics are the

most common and important drugs available for treatment, we speak of antibiotic resistance (ABR).