Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health. Therefore, understanding and investigating the underlying mechanisms is necessary to reduce drug resistance. To boost the current research and development of new antibiotics that will help in the effective management of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, WHO has published its first-ever list of priority pathogens.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published, for the first time, a list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, priority pathogen, from 12 families that pose the greatest threat to human health and urgently need new antibiotics to treat them. This WHO pathogen priority list was developed in collaboration with the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Tübingen, Germany using a multi-criteria decision analysis technique. The criteria for selecting these priority pathogens on the list were:…
