Ethical bioprospecting and microbial assessments for sustainable solutions to the AMR crisis.

Autor: Cartledge K; Centre to Impact AMR, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia., Short FL; Centre to Impact AMR, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.; Infection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia., Hall A; Centre to Impact AMR, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.; Infection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia., Lambert K; Centre to Impact AMR, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.; School of Curriculum, Teaching and Inclusive Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia., McDonald MJ; Centre to Impact AMR, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.; School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia., Lithgow T; Centre to Impact AMR, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.; Infection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: IUBMB life [IUBMB Life] 2025 Jan; Vol. 77 (1), pp. e2931.
DOI: 10.1002/iub.2931
Abstrakt: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been declared one of the top 10 global public health challenges of our age by the World Health Organization, and the World Bank describes AMR as a crisis affecting the finance, health, and agriculture sectors and a major threat to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals. But what is AMR? It is a phenotype that evolves in microbes exposed to antimicrobial molecules and causes dangerous infections. This suggests that scientists and healthcare workers should be on the frontline in the search for sustainable solutions to AMR. Yet AMR is also a societal problem to be understood by everyone. This review aims to explore the need to address the problem of AMR through a coherent, international strategy with buy-in from all sectors of society. As reviewed here, the sustainable solutions to AMR will be driven by better understanding of AMR biology but will require more than this alone to succeed. Some advances on the horizon, such as the use of bacteriophage (phage) to treat AMR infections. However, many of the new technologies and new therapeutics to address AMR require access to biodiversity, where the custodians of that biodiversity-and the traditional knowledge required to access it-are needed as key partners in the scientific, clinical, biotechnological, and international ventures that would treat the problem of AMR and ultimately prevent its further evolution. Many of these advances will be built on microbial assessments to understand the extent of AMR in our environments and bioprospecting to identify microbes that may have beneficial uses. Genuine partnerships for access to this biodiversity and sharing of benefits accrued require a consideration of ethical practice and behavior. Behavior change is needed across all sectors of culturally diverse societies so that rapid deployment of solutions can be implemented for maximum effect against the impacts of AMR.
(© 2024 The Author(s). IUBMB Life published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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