ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

The issue of antimicrobial resistance is one of main topic in the world special in the fields of public health Kuwait.What is antimicrobial resistance?

• The ability of antibiotics to stop an infection depends on killing or halting the growth of harmful bacteria.
• Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in a way that reduces or eliminates the effectiveness of drugs.The bacteria acquire the ability to survive in the presence of concentration of an antimicrobial which is normally lethal to organism of that species.
• Infection with resistant microorganism can occur de noivo during the course of antimicrobial therapy.