@ARTICLE{10.3389/fmicb.2019.02240, AUTHOR={Qu, Junyan and Huang, Yimei and Lv, Xiaoju}, TITLE={Crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance in China: Now and the Future}, JOURNAL={Frontiers in Microbiology}, VOLUME={10}, YEAR={2019}, URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02240}, DOI={10.3389/fmicb.2019.02240}, ISSN={1664-302X}, ABSTRACT={The crisis of antimicrobial resistance is worsening and has become a major public safety problem in China, seriously endangering human and animal health and ecological environment. Gram-negative bacterial resistance in China is severe: the related pathogens mainly include carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Surging antimicrobial consumption and irrational use of antimicrobials are the main causes of resistance. In China, a variety of strategies are implemented to control the antimicrobial resistance in hospitals, agriculture and environment. However, there is still a long way to go to strengthen the drug resistance surveillance, to reduce the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria, and to find new antimicrobials and therapies for drug-resistant bacteria. Controlling the antimicrobial resistance crisis takes great efforts from the whole society.} }