Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Optimizing Use of an Older Antibiotic-Amoxicillin.

ABSTRACT

Antimicrobial resistance has become a major clinical and public health problem today. It not only poses a serious threat to human health and welfare but also undermines national economies worldwide. There are major international efforts to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance. Similarly, being seriously concerned about the high resistance rate in our country, ‘Chennai Declaration’ was an initiative to formulate a national policy to control the rising trend of antimicrobial resistance. In such a scenario, it is prudent to focus on first-generation antibiotics such as amoxicillin. In this review, we have highlighted the efficacy and usefulness of amoxicillin in clinical practice.