INTRODUCTION
AMR CONTROL 2015 3
CONTENTS
05 Introduction Dr Jean Carlet
Global overview
12 A global overview of antimicrobial resistance
Laura Shallcross, John Watson and
Dame Sally Davies
Economic and business models
18 Antibiotic innovation- some lessons from the
WHO processes on public health, innovation and
intellectual property
Jens Plahte and John-Arne Røttingen
26 Creating an intergovernmental consortium for
new antibiotics: A new development model
Marie-Paule Kieny
Monitoring, Surveillance and national plans
36 Surveillance and monitoring of antimicrobial
resistance (AMR)
Steven Solomon and Kashef Ijaz
40 Antimicrobial resistance control in Asia
Jae-Hoon Song
46 The actions of China in containing antimicrobialresistance
Yonghong Xiao and Lanjuan Li,
54 The South African Antimicrobial Resistance
Strategy Framework
Marc Mendelson and Malebona Precious
Matsotso
62 Tackling antimicrobial resistance through
prescription control in human health
Céline Pulcini
Antimicrobial resistance and the environment
68 The role of sanitation in the development and
spread of antimicrobial resistence
Antoine Andremont and Timothy R Walsh
Confronting antimicrobial resistance
76 Diagnostic solutions critical to limit antimicrobial
resistance development
Catharina Boehme, Mark Kessel and Ilona
Kickbusch
80 The role of improvement science in infection
control
M Rashad Massoud, Danika Barry, Sonali Vaid,
Nokuthula Mdluli Kuhlase and Samson M Haumba
88 Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance surveillance
Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, S Anand and Ranjani
Ramachandran