Journal of Clinical and Molecular Pathology : Open Access

The Pros, Cons and future of antibiotic therapy

21^stEuroSciCon Webinar on CLINICAL PATHOLOGY & BACTERIAL DISEASES
May 27, 2021 Online Event

First A. Elroy Patrick Weledji, Elizabeth Weledji, Jules Clement Assob

First Author Affiliation (University of Buea, Cameroon)
Second Author Affiliation(Middlesbrough, UK)
Third Author Affiliation (University of Douala, Cameroon)

Keynote: J Clin Mol Pathol

Abstract

The advantages of antibiotics have been most clearly seen in those acute bacterial infections which had a high mortality before the introduction of antibiotics. The reality of the potential harmful effects of antibiotics, both short term in individual patients and long term in favoring emergent resistance and opportunistic pathogens are discussed. Bacterial resistance makes the standard treatments ineffective, and increases the risk of infection spreading. The shortage of novel antibiotics has strengthened the efforts of genome sequencing to control bacterial resistance. The future would include novel approaches, based on a re-conceptualization of the nature of resistance, disease and prevention. Keywords— antibiotics. pros, cons, future

Biography

Assoc Professor Dr Elroy Patrick Weledji has completed his BSc (Physiology) and MSc (Neurological Science) from University of London, trained in Medicine (MBBCHBAO) in University college Dublin and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is associate professor of anatomy and Surgery in the faculty of Health sciences of the University of Buea, Cameroon, W/Africa. He is a consultant Gastrointestinal surgeon with interest in surgical oncology and surgical sepsis. from Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.