Acronym commonly standing for Antimicrobial Resistance, a growing global health threat where bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
Formed from the initial letters of 'Antimicrobial Resistance.' The concept emerged in the 1940s shortly after antibiotics were discovered, but the acronym became widely used in medical literature from the 1990s onward.
AMR is one of the most terrifying acronyms in modern medicine - it represents the potential return to a pre-antibiotic world where simple infections could be deadly. Scientists warn it could kill 10 million people annually by 2050!
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