The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released its first set of surveillance data on antibiotic resistance, revealing high levels of resistance to several serious bacterial infections globally.
Antibacterial resistance
Published in the report, ‘Global Antimicrobial Surveillance System (GLASS)’, the data demonstrates widespread bacterial resistance irrespective of a country’s income (so both low and high-income countries are affected) with a suspected 500,000 people suffering from bacterial infections across 22 countries.