Overcome Barriers to Generating Quality Antimicrobial Resistance Data

Antibiotics have saved countless lives since they were first developed in the late 1930s. These wonder drugs make it possible for people to recover from otherwise deadly and sometime highly contagious illnesses. However in the 1970s antibacterial resistance topped the charts as a major public health threat as once curable diseases were fatal again! Today over 25000 people die annually in Europe alone due to bacterial infections that do not respond to treatment. This is just the beginning. If you as the patient the physician the politician the farmer or the researcher doesn't take action today we will not only become unable to treat infections we will also lose the ability to provide cancer treatment perform complex surgery provide dialysis for renal disease and perform organ or bone marrow transplantation! This study provides comprehensive background information about this topic. It also uncovers a fascinating group of challenges faced and solutions utilized by researchers in the Central Asian and Eastern European region as they work to generate antimicrobial resistance data for the World Health Organization Regional Surveillance System also know as CAESAR.