title: Antibiotic resistance--an evolving problem.
abstract: In 1998, an influential report on antimicrobial resistance from the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology highlighted the threat posed to public health by resistance, and called for products to be used more prudently in both human and veterinary medicine. Here, Lord Soulsby, who chaired the Lords' committee on antimicrobials, and Richard Wise, who advised the committee and is now chairman of the Government's Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance, consider what has been achieved since then, along with the challenges that remain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, City Hospital, Birmingham.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wise
authors.forename: E J L
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Soulsby
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom; D019155:Veterinary Drugs / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D019155:Veterinary Drugs