Gröhe: “Urgent need for antibiotics that work against communicable diseases“

WHO publishes global list of drug-resistant ‘priority pathogens‘

Responding to an initiative from the Federal Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) published on 27 February 2017 the first ever list of resistant bacteria that currently pose the greatest threat to human health. The list is meant to guide research, discovery and the development of new antibiotics – one objective of WHO’s Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance.