Antibiotics: Responding to a Global Challenge
Editorial—Antibiotics: A New Journal Rising to a Global Challenge
Antibiotics—A Short-Lived Miracle?
Antibiotics: The Journal’s International, Multi-Disciplinary and Broad Focus
- Biomedical innovation, capitalizing on the tantalizing promises of genomics and personalized medicine for new agents that are better targeted to individual host and pathogen characteristics to achieve improved clinical outcomes.
- Better diagnostics, especially those that are useful at the point of care to guide clinical decision making about whether and what agent to prescribe. These diagnostic tests should be affordable and feasible also in resource-poor settings.
- Enhanced understanding of how antibiotics are processed in the body, their effect on an individual’s microbiological ecology, and studies of treatment efficacy and effectiveness.
- Enhanced surveillance on the incidence of infections, the way they are currently treated, clinical outcomes, and the influence of antimicrobial resistance, so we can better know where we are headed and model the effect of any possible changes in practice. Data will need to be clinically useful and better used in informing clinical decision-making, clinical guidelines and policy development.
- Associated costs and cost effectiveness.
- Improved ways of achieving translating new, robust evidence in clinical care in a wide range of settings internationally.
- Improving prevention of infections through changed lifestyle of individuals and communities, better farming methods, improved immunization and reduced opportunities for transmission.
- Enhanced access to effective antibiotics for those who will benefit and better ways of curtailing use where they are not effective
- How different classes of antibiotics, infection related strategies, and antibiotic use in humans and animals interact to produce both beneficial and unwanted outcomes. We need to see the world in an integrated, systemic way.
Antibiotics: Proudly International, Multidisciplinary, Bold and Eclectic
Antibiotics: A Journal with a Values Based Mission
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Butler, C.C. Antibiotics: Responding to a Global Challenge. Antibiotics 2012, 1, 14-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics1010014
Butler CC. Antibiotics: Responding to a Global Challenge. Antibiotics. 2012; 1(1):14-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics1010014
Chicago/Turabian StyleButler, Christopher C. 2012. "Antibiotics: Responding to a Global Challenge" Antibiotics 1, no. 1: 14-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics1010014