Applications of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Natural Product Chemistry in Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance

Mansurat Oluwatoyin O. Shoge and Khalifa Musa Muhammad

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Abstract: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major concern for global health security because of its impact on human, environment, and animal health. This tendency of AMR was corroborated by Alexander Fleming who discovered the first antibiotic. This chapter focuses on the global concern of AMR, its causes, and solutions. Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is one of the solutions employed globally to tackle the challenge of AMR. The objective of the AMS includes: reducing antibiotic abuse, lowering healthcare costs, and tackling AMR. Therefore, it is pertinent to decrease AMR and protect global health. Many countries are implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in order to reduce AMR. The misuse of antibiotics is one of the major factors that cause AMR. To reduce antibiotic abuse pharmacists have a key role to play. Finding new drugs to treat resistant pathogens is another solution to AMR. Plants have contributed immensely to traditional medicine and drug discovery due to the presence of bioactive secondary metabolites. They have the potential to contribute immensely to tackling AMR.

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance; antimicrobial stewardship; global health; plants; secondary metabolites (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.113185

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