About the Book: Antimicrobial Resistance: Scenario, Impact and Future
Perspectives
Discovery of penicillin enlighten humanity with its miraculous results in
curing bacterial infection. During the time users forgot the words of Alexander
Fleming regarding alarming the antibiotic overuse in 1945 with the remarks ""It
is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by
exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing
has occasionally happened in the body". In a very short time evidences of
penicillin-resistant S. aureus emerged in 1942. Thus, microbes proved to be
smarter than us and it is an ongoing phenomena. The condition is supposed