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The fight against antimicrobial resistance

India is developing local solutions to a global problem that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  1. Bianca Nogrady

    1. Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist based in Sydney, Australia.

Faced with a skyrocketing rate of antimicrobial resistance, which is estimated to cause or contribute to millions of deaths around the world each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017 created a classification system for antimicrobial drugs.

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Nature 624, S30-S32 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03912-8

This article is part of Nature Spotlight: India, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.

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