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Global governance of antimicrobial resistance

Connor Rochford et al.
May 24, 2018, 4 p.m.

"The rising threat of AMR in human beings is neither new nor rare; drug-resistant infections are already estimated to cause 700 000 annual deaths globally. A leading concern is multidrug-resistant tuberculosis that resulted in 240 000 deaths worldwide in 2016."

The full Comment published in The Lancet is available here.