期刊名称：Environmental Health Engineering and Management
印刷版ISSN：2423-3765
电子版ISSN：2423-4311
出版年度：2018
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：77-78
DOI：10.15171/EHEM.2018.11
语种：English
出版社：Kerman University of Medical Sciences
摘要：Antibiotics passed their “golden age” too early by the emergence of antibiotic resistance as a global challenge (1- 3). Today,antibiotic resistance is known as a progressive and chronic disease in the conventional and modern healthcare systems worldwide (2) and is directly related to antibiotic consumption in the societies. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified antibiotic resistance as one of the three critical challenges of the current century (4). The developed antibiotic resistance can easily affect patients,those accompanying them and other people associated with patients and hospitals. It also increases mortality as well as costs and reduces life quality in therapeutic environments. The cycling of antibiotic resistance in hospitals challenges its management and control and annually leads to hundreds of deaths. Antibiotic resistance is not merely limited to the healthcare environments and hospitals,but also it could enter to the environmental resources. It has also been identified as one of the environmental contaminants (5,6)..
