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Tackling antimicrobial resistance: the progress so far
Author(s) -
Ogden Joy
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1803
Subject(s) - medicine , government (linguistics) , action plan , action (physics) , resistance (ecology) , antimicrobial , plan (archaeology) , antibiotic resistance , optometry , management , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , geography , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , economics , biology
In January, the UK government published its second five‐year national action plan for tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as well as its vision for effectively containing and controlling AMR by 2040. But how much progress has been made so far, what more needs to be done, and is the government's vision a realistic one?