Antibiotic resistance threatens our ability to treat common infectious diseases and can increase mortality rates. When bacteria become resistant to current antibiotic treatments, people may remain infectious longer and be more likely to die from infections like MRSA. This also reduces our ability to control infectious diseases and increases healthcare costs due to the need for more expensive or longer treatments. Antibiotic resistance complicates medical procedures and could make some, like transplants or cancer treatment, no longer viable options. The World Health Organization reports treatment failures for gonorrhea, E. coli urinary tract infections, and other diseases, and that antibiotic resistance has spread worldwide.

1. How Antibiotic
Resistance Impacts
Society
So why does it matter?

2. Why it Matters
 When bacteria become resistant to our current
treatments it threatens our ability to treat common
infectious disease
 This can have many adverse effects making it a global
concern

3. Resistance Can Kill
 As the bacteria do not respond to normal treatment it
can lead to people being unwell for longer with higher
chances of death occurring
 An example where this is MRSA (methicillin resistant
Staphylococcus aureus)
 People infected with this resistant strain are 64%
more likely to die from the infection

4. Resistant Reduces Infectious
Disease Control
 Due to the reduction in treatment efficacy it means
people stay infectious for a longer period of time
 The longer someone is infectious for the greater the
risk there is of spreading resistant bacteria
 This can be seen in one of the strains of malaria
(plasmodium falciparum) which has become resistant
and is spreading in the Greater Mekong region

5. Increases Health Care Costs
Greater health care costs
and economic burden on
families and society
More
Expensive
Therapies
Needed and
Longer
Hospital Stay
Treatment
Doesn't Work

6. Resistance Reduces Health
Care Advances
 By having resistant strains some medical procedures
can be made more complicated
 Things like organ transplants, cancer chemotherapy
and major surgery would not be possible
 These procedures reduces someone's natural body
defenses and if risk of infection with a resistant strain is
too great they would no longer be a viable option

7. Some Data From WHO
(World Health Organization)
 Treatment failure to the drug of last resort for gonorrhoea (third-generation
cephalosporins) has been confirmed in several countries. Untreatable
gonococcal infections result in increased rates of illness and complications,
such as infertility, adverse pregnancy outcomes and neonatal blindness, and
has the potential to reverse the gains made in the control of this sexually
transmitted infection.
 Resistance to one of the most widely used antibacterial drugs for the oral
treatment of urinary tract infections caused by E. coli (fluoroquinolones) is very
widespread.
 Resistance to first-line drugs to treat infections caused by Staphlylococcus
aureus is also widespread.
 Resistance to the treatment of last resort for life-threatening infections caused
by common intestinal bacteria has spread to all regions of the world. Key tools
to tackle antibiotic resistance reveal considerable gaps. In many countries,
they do not even seem to exist.

8. That’s All Folks
 So hopefully you realize that antibiotic resistance can
be a costly killer which can severely impact they ways
we treat infection
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