Antibiotic resistance is a major health threat to the world

Antibiotic resistance is such an important condition that the World Health Organization (WHO) dedicates one week a year to this topic. World Antibiotic Awareness Week was held on Nov 18-24 in 2019. — TNS

The term “antibiosis”, meaning “against life”, was introduced by the French bacteriologist Jean Paul Vuillemin as a descriptive name of the phenomenon exhibited by early antibacterial drugs.

The term “antibiotic” was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution.