Antimicrobial stewardship: A global threat

Antimicrobial stewardship is an effort to design, improve, and measure the use of antimicrobials by optimizing the drug, duration, therapy and route of administration by minimizing the toxicity, adverse effects, cost, infections, and tries to decrease the antimicrobial resistance. This review is a source to create aware the consequences of overuse of antimicrobials. The inappropriate use of antimicrobials can lead to multi drug resistant organisms. Previously when resistance developed there was a new drug available for treatment but now the overuse of antimicrobials had left with no option. The front-end or prescription and the back-end or post prescription approach are the most successful programs for controlling the misuse and overuse. The optimal care for an infected patient's is treating them with properly dosed drugs at correct time