Date Of Publication: August 01, 2025
Tags: crisis, antimicrobial, resistance, data
Author:MAAP
Co-authors: ""
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Type: Publications for Diagnostics, Articles, Other
Languages: English
Country: South Africa
Drug-resistant pathogens are a hidden menace in Africa, just like anywhere else—only, perhaps, more so. However, the scale of the problem is concealed by patchy surveillance on the continent. We know that when pathogens are repeatedly exposed to an insufficient dose or an abbreviated treatment time of antimicrobials they may survive and evolve into resistant strains. These new strains lose their susceptibility to antimicrobials that had previously been effective—creating what we call antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Resistant pathogens can be transmitted through contamination, but also can pass their mutation mechanisms to similar ‘bystander’ pathogens, and the resistant infections spread
