New ways to combat the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Many bacteria (an example in green here) have become resistant to common antibiotics (an example as the yellow circle here), which could mean that we will soon run out of medicines to treat even simple infections. — dpa

We have probably all heard that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing problem, but what exactly does it mean?

AMR refers to the ability of microbes to resist the effects of antimicrobials.