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Globalization and Antimicrobial Resistance: A Moving Target

Rodney E. Rohde and Ryan P. McNamara
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science April 2018, 31 (2) 88-94; DOI: https://doi.org/10.29074/ascls.2018000489

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    Figure 1.

    The bottleneck effect. A population of a pathogen is exposed to an antimicrobial. The majority of the pathogen population contains no resistance, but a fraction does (green) and can flow through the bottleneck. This population can then propagate, leading to the rise of AMR in that particular pathogen.

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    Figure 2.

    The rise in the population in the United States and urbanization. (A) The United States has seen triple the population growth in the past 100 years. (B) The percentage of the US population living in urban areas has increased dramatically in the past 100 years. All data was obtained from the publicly accessible www.census.gov.

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    Figure 3.

    Increase in global travel and tourism, as predicted in the early 2000s by the World Tourism Organization.

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Globalization and Antimicrobial Resistance: A Moving Target
Rodney E. Rohde, Ryan P. McNamara
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science Apr 2018, 31 (2) 88-94; DOI: 10.29074/ascls.2018000489
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