Open AccessAntimicrobial Resistance: Are we heading towards Post Antibiotic Era?
Author(s) -
Bashir Ahmad Fomda
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of medical sciences/journal of medical sciences (srinagar. online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-063X
pISSN - 0972-110X
DOI - 10.33883/jms.v17i2.238
Subject(s) - medicine , antibiotics , antimicrobial , penicillin , antibiotic resistance , drug , antimicrobial drug , drug resistance , intensive care medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , pharmacology , biology
The discovery of penicillin in 1928 by Alexander Fleming , a magic antibiotic used for treatment of most of the bacterial infection marked the beginning of antibiotic era. With booming drug development a new drug was always available to treat increasing drug resistant bacteria. Between 1935 to 2003 fourteen classes of antibiotics were developed. However with the indiscriminate and inappropriate use of antibiotics, microbes developed mechanisms to elude the action of antimicrobial agents. JMS 2014;17(2):48-49