Lives lost and disease burden related to antimicrobial resistance in the Americas can no longer be ignored

• Eduardo A. Undurraga,
• Anne Peters,
• Cesar A. Arias,
• Jose M. Munita

Affiliations

Eduardo A. Undurraga

Multidisciplinary Initiative for Collaborative Research On Bacterial Resistance (MICROB-R), Chile; Escuela de Gobierno, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Región Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile; Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN), Región Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile; Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anne Peters

Multidisciplinary Initiative for Collaborative Research On Bacterial Resistance (MICROB-R), Chile; Genomics and Resistant Microbes (GeRM), Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Región Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile

Cesar A. Arias

Division of Infectious Diseases, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA; Center for Infectious Diseases, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, TX, USA

Jose M. Munita

Multidisciplinary Initiative for Collaborative Research On Bacterial Resistance (MICROB-R), Chile; Genomics and Resistant Microbes (GeRM), Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Región Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile; Corresponding author. Multidisciplinary Initiative for Collaborative Research On Bacterial Resistance (MICROB-R), Chile.