Did you know? Alexander Flemming discovered the first antibiotic in 1928, called penicillin, but warned about AMR in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: ‘The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug [and] make them resistant’.

• Did you know that in 2023 A study conducted at KCCR found that 40.9% of Children in Agogo carry ESBL –E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniea. Over 70% of these AMR bacteria were also resistant to tetracycline. For more information kindly read the article: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-023-01263-7

• Did you know that an AMR bacteria: ESBL-E. coli was also found in 56.2% of Domestic Free-range poultry in Agogo. For more information kindly read the article: https://doi.org/10.1089/FPD.2022.0060

• Did you know that monkeys in both the wild and captivity who have close human contact are also affected by antimicrobial resistance? Scientists at KCCR discovered Staphylococcus spp and Enterobacter spp bacteria in monkeys, with most resistant to tetracycline and ampicillin. For more information kindly read the article:  https://doi.org/10.1002/vms3.1271

• Did you know that Arcobacter butzleri, an emerging diarrheagenic pathogen associated with poultry and water through genome sequencing, revealed antibiotic resistance (AMR) genes to ampicillin and quinolones?. For more information kindly read the article: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1094067

• Did you know that there are more of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella enterica in commercial farms animals compared to smallholder farms animals? : https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-023-03121-3

• Did you know that a study has revealed multidrug resistance of a 4.7% among Campylobacter spp in Ghana? For more information kindly read the article: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.983047

• Did you know that in rural district hospitals, chronic wound infections show high AMR bacteria: 29% of cases involve methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and 33% show resistance to third-generation cephalosporins in Enterobacteriaceae? For more information, please read the article: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237263