The global response to the threat of antimicrobial resistance and the important role of vaccines
Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a significant threat to global health security and threatens the achievements of modern medicine. Research and successful development of new antibiotics, especially those with novel mechanisms of action vital to combat resistance, has slowed dramatically since the 1980s. Surveillance for AMR is highly variable globally with significant limitations in many countries impeding the ability to fully characterize the problem. Global efforts to control tuberculosis, malaria and HIV are facing increasing difficulties from the emergence of resistance. Similarly, bacteria causing some of the most common infections in communities or in hospitals such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae have shown high levels of resistance to third generation cephalosporins requiring treatment with expensive carbapenems as last-resort. Additionally, Streptococcus pneumoniae has shown reduced susceptibility to penicillin in many regions, exceeding 50% in some settings. The cost in lives from AMR over the next 40 years could go as high as 10 million per year with the cost to economic development as high as $3 trillion per year if current trends continue. In addition to ensuring appropriate use of antibiotics and development of novel classes with new or enhanced mechanisms of action, many plans for the global response call for new vaccines as integral to the fight against AMR. Vaccines and antibiotics should be used together to produce synergistic gains in public health, and ultimately, vaccines will extend the clinical utility of antibiotics. The decrease in cases of invasive pneumococcal disease and decrease in prescriptions for antibiotics in some settings resulting from the introduction of broad access to, and utilization of conjugate vaccines for Streptococcus pneumoniae exemplifies the synergy that can be achieved in the fight against AMR.
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