Otto Cars

TL;DR: Future development strategies should focus on antibiotics that are active against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and Gram-negative bacteria, and include antibiotic-resistant bacteria responsible for community-acquired infections.

TL;DR: The global situation of antibiotic resistance, its major causes and consequences, and key areas in which action is urgently needed are described and identified.

TL;DR: It is shown that in Europe antimicrobial resistance is correlated with use of beta-lactam antibiotics and macrolides.

TL;DR: During the last decade, the efforts to combat multidrug-resistant (MDR) microorganisms mainly focused on gram-positive bacteria, namely, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci.

TL;DR: There is an incoming tide of concern about the problems of antimicrobial resistance as discussed by the authors, and the Danish Chief Medical Officer, Einar Krag, has called together colleagues from the European Union and their advisors for a conference on "the microbial threat" to assess the strategies to prevent and control the emergence and spread of resistant micro-organisms.