PREVALENCE AND SURVEILLANCE OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN SOCIETY OF BASRA- IRAQ

Aseel Kadhim Thamer

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become more wide spread due to overuse and misuse of antibiotics, as well as social and economic issues. The WHO produced a list of pathogens that posed the greatest threat to humans, the most important are Enterobacter species, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus. These pathogens were assigned the highest "priority list." The lack of health information systems, inadequate management of medical facilities, minimal laboratory capability, and scarce resources make life difficult in countries with low or middle incomes. It has been shown that resistant bacteria can spread to people in a variety of situations, including public areas in metropolitan built environments with high densities of human activity, such as schools, and public transportation. This article describes many months' worth of surveillance operations that were carried out in Basra-Iraq. These efforts are not only significant on a national level, but they also contribute to the worldwide effort to combat the threat that antibiotic resistance poses