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Covid-19 is driving up antibiotic resistance

As the world battles the Covid-19 pandemic, effort and focus have turned to the steadily emerging global public health problem of antimicrobial resistance.

Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of micro-organisms such as bacteria or fungi to persist in any part of the body despite administration of drugs designed to kill them. This advent of multidrug-resistant bacteria are rendering antibiotics ineffective in the treatment of many infectious diseases.

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