Policy makers and the general public are still not aware of the problem of antimicrobial resistance, said representatives of the European Commission, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Medicines Agency and the WHO on Thursday 18 November at the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE).
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - the resistance of bacteria and viruses to the effects of medicines - is considered by the...