Antimicrobial Resistance

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Antimicrobial resistance

Eurovoc reference

c_7dda56e2 Antimicrobial resistance

Related concepts

• Infectious disease
• Sexually transmitted disease
• Antibiotic

Alternative Concepts

• Anti-microbial drug resistance
• AMR
• Antibiotic resistance
• Resistance to antibiotics

Definition

AMR is the ability of microorganisms (e.g. bacteria, viruses or parasites, such as the malaria parasite) to resist antimicrobial treatments, especially antibiotics. Source: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Available at: <a href=

Other Languages

• Spanish: Resistencia a los antimicrobianos
• French: Résistance aux antimicrobiens
• German: Antimikrobielle Resistenz
• Italian: Resistenza agli antimicrobici
• Portuguese: Resistência antimicrobiana
• Polish: Oporno&sacute;&cacute; na &sacute;rodki przeciwdrobnoustrojowe

Properties and Values of Antimicrobial resistance

• URI https://en.legalthesaurus.org/antimicrobial-resistance/
• skos:Concept: https://en.legalthesaurus.org/antimicrobial-resistance/

Preferred lexical labels

• skos:prefLabel: Antimicrobial resistance (en) (USE)
• Term in other languages: see above

Generic concepts

• skos:broader: See above (GT)
• skos:hasTopConcept: See above (Areas)

Specific concepts

• skos:narrower: See the specific concepts above (ST)

Related concepts

• skos:related: see the associative relationships above (RT)
• skos:related: related (other related concepts)

Alternative lexical labels

• skos:altLabel: see the alternative concepts above (UF)
• skos:altLabel: synonym (S)
• skos:altLabel: look up Antimicrobial resistance abbreviations and acronyms (A)

Documentation notes

• skos:scopeNote: this concept on Antimicrobial resistance defines the activities of Antimicrobial resistance (en)
• skos:editorialNote: Editorial Note on Antimicrobial resistance (EN)
• skos:notation: Notation on Antimicrobial resistance: see reference Eurovoc (N)
• skos:definition: Antimicrobial resistance definition:
• skos:example: example of Antimicrobial resistance usage:

Thematic indexing

• dct:subject: https://lawin.org/antimicrobial-resistance/
• Definitions: See the meaning(s) of Antimicrobial resistance
• Search the digital platform (S)

Other general information

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