This book reviews the drivers, impact and mitigation of  antimicrobial resistance. The World Health Organization has included antimicrobial resistance as one of the top ten threats to global health in 2019. Antimicrobial resistance is a slow but implacable evolutionary process, which has been accelerated by human activity in varied sectors such as human health, environment and agriculture that leads to increased morbidity and mortality. Due to a wide application, antibiotics and their residues have been found in almost all food products and natural ecosystems.weiterlesen