Antimicrobial Resistance is a Global Threat
Advancement in contemporary medicine and surgery could not be possible without use of anti-microbial drugs . They have remarkably reduced the number of cases with infections and have made it possible to introduction of complex medical interventions . Replacing damaged body parts or organs, advanced surgery and care of premature or low birth weights children are some of the procedures endangered by increasing spread of resistant organisms . Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a natural phenomenon, which due to irrational use has been accelerated in last few decades . Figure 1 presents the key facts about anti-microbial resistance. Irrational use includes unnecessarily prescribing antimicrobials in low dosage than required, it also includes use of antimicrobials in unhygienic hospital settings . High use of antimicrobial in the animals used for food consumption such as in poultry and pig farms is supportive for growing AMR, as it has been a global practice to introduce antimicrobials on large scale to livestock . By 2030, world-wide it is estimated that the consumption of antimicrobials in the livestock sector is increase by 66.7 per cent . International transportation and trading have accelerated the spread of resistant micro-organisms . Besides, research and development of new generations of antimicrobial drugs has almost stopped .