Strategies to overcome antibiotic resistance: An overview

Modern medicine's remarkable advancements have saved countless lives and enhanced the quality of human existence. Antibiotics have been especially beneficial in treating infections and preventing severe complications. However, an alarming threat lurks in the future: the rise of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is a significant and rising global danger to human, animal, and environmental health. Antibiotic resistance is the ability of microorganisms, mainly bacteria, to resist the effects of antibiotic drugs, making it more challenging to treat infections and presenting a grave threat to global health. The global resistome, made up of genes that cause antibiotic resistance, is affected by factors such as population growth, rising migration, excessive antibiotic use in medical and agricultural sectors, poor sanitation, wildlife transmission, and inadequate wastewater treatment (1).