In its recent “Global Report on Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance 2025,” the World Health Organization warns of growing resistance to common antibiotics globally.

According to the document, “one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections that caused common infections in people worldwide in 2023 was resistant to antibiotic treatment.”

Statistics reveal that between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance increased in more than 40 % of “monitored pathogen-antibiotic combinations, with an average annual increase of 5 to 15 percent.” The report was based on data reported to the organization’s Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in more than 100 countries.

For the first time, it presents “estimates of the prevalence of resistance to 22 antibiotics used to treat urinary tract and gastrointestinal infections, bloodstream infections, and those used to treat gonorrhea.”

According to this document, drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria are increasingly dangerous worldwide, with the greatest impact on nations least equipped to respond.

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Source: xinhua.net

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