Antibiotics have been used to cure bacterial infections for more than 70 years, and these low-
molecular-weight bioactive agents have also been used for a variety of other medicinal …

Antibiotic resistance is a major health concern globally and has been estimated to cause 10
million deaths worldwide by year 2050 if the current trend of inappropriate and excessive …

Imprudent and overuse of clinically relevant antibiotics in agriculture, veterinary and medical
sectors contribute to the global epidemic increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR). There …

The advent of multidrug resistance among pathogenic bacteria is imperiling the worth of
antibiotics, which have previously transformed medical sciences. The crisis of antimicrobial …

Nanotechnology using nanoscale materials is increasingly being utilized for clinical
applications, especially as a new paradigm for infectious diseases. Infections caused by …

Despite an array of cogent antibiotics, bacterial infections, notably those produced by
nosocomial pathogens, still remain a leading factor of morbidity and mortality around the …

Phage therapy is a medical form of biological control of bacterial infections, one that uses
naturally occurring viruses, called bacteriophages or phages, as antibacterial agents …

The release of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in environmental
waters has become an urgent issue due to their pseudo-persistent traits. The present study …

In the last decade we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the proportion and absolute
number of bacterial pathogens resistant to multiple antibacterial agents. Multidrug-resistant …

The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behaviour at many
levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Similarities with climate …