Antibiotic resistance and a way forward for veterinarians

In 1928, Alexander Fleming, a Scottish Physician, discovered penicillin ‘quite by accident’, revolutionising medicine and the human relationship with microbial diseases forever. Diseases such as scarlet fever, pneumonia, meningitis and diphtheria which were devastating in Britain were suddenly curable.Today however, less than 100 years later, we are once again threatened by diseases that for the last century been curable. As antimicrobial resistance becomes a global concern, as Veterinarians our role in the current and future use remains of utmost importance.