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The overall takeaway from the paper is that bacterial antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is not just a problem for high-income countries, or countries with really high antibiotic consumption.
The study, based on data prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, found a marked disparity between the rate of fatalities due to bacterial infections between relatively wealthy and poor populations.
In the year before Covid stuck, 7.7million fatalities worldwide were caused by bugs such as S. aureus, E. coli, S. pneumoniae. They can cause skin, blood and lung infections.
First global estimates of mortality involving 33 bacterial pathogens and 11 types of infection suggest they were associated with 7.7 million deaths in 2019.