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What Is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?
Antimicrobials are treatments designed to kill microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, or protozoa that cause infections.
AMR is the ability of microorganisms to become “superbugs” and nullify the effects of antimicrobial drugs. This results in these drugs becoming ineffective.
Your body cannot become resistant to antimicrobials. It is the microorganisms that can become resistant to the drugs.
AMR is not a problem that can be solved by any one country, or even any one region. We live in a connected world where people, animals, and food travel, and microbes travel with them.6
Learn About Superbugs
“Superbugs” cause infections that are difficult to treat. Here are some you may have heard about.
Click to learn more about each from the CDC.
MRSA – Methicillin-resistant S. aureus
MDR- or XDR-TB – Multidrug-resistant or extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
CRE – Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae
Resistant strains of E. coli
C. difficile
Latest Findings
Article | cidrap.umn.edu
Antibiotic residues prevalent in rivers globally, study reveals
A modeling study suggests nearly a third of the amount of antibiotics consumed by people globally ends up in rivers.
News | cidrap.umn.edu/newsletter
CIDRAP-ASP Newsletter — April 2025
News | resistancemap.cddep.org
CDDEP Resistance Map
Learn more about resistance rates around the world (and in your community) with an interactive collection of charts and maps that summarize national and subnational data on antimicrobial use and resistance worldwide.
News | channels.plos.org/amr
Translating antibiotic prescribing into antibiotic resistance in the environment
The environment receives antibiotics through a combination of direct application, as well as indirect release through pharmaceutical manufacturing, sewage and animal manure.
More Tools
Free Online course — Antibiotic Resistance: The Silent Tsunami
Learn the concepts of antibiotic resistance and what actions are needed to meet this global health threat in this free online course “Antibiotic Resistance: the Silent Tsunami”.
Antibiotic Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance
This six-week course will inform you about – and empower you to provide – safe, high-quality antibiotic use.
Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship Guidelines
Read and download IDSA/SHEA guidelines or ask for a free hard copy.
Check out a documentary, Silent Pandemic
Hear from patients, clinicians, and leaders
Silent Pandemic shows how countries, scientists and private initiatives around the world are networking and forming alliances, and what strategies and measures they are using to counter the advance of antibiotic resistance.