AUTHOR=Qu Junyan , Huang Yimei , Lv Xiaoju 

TITLE=Crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance in China: Now and the Future

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2019

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02240

DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2019.02240

ISSN=1664-302X

ABSTRACT=<p>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 <italic>Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas aeruginosa</italic> and <italic>Klebsiella pneumoniae.</italic> 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.</p>