Neonatal sepsis: a complex high-impact global health challenge urgently requiring prioritisation

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is firmly lodged in the medical community’s collective mind as a challenge to be reckoned with in the decades to come ( 1 Murray C.J.L. Ikuta K.S. Sharara F. Swetschinski L. Robles Aguilar G. Gray A. et al. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis. The Lancet. 2022; 399: 629-655 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (3079) Google Scholar ). It already affects millions of lives around the globe and has been likened to climate change both in likely impact and complexity( 2 Harring N. Krockow E.M. The social dilemmas of climate change and antibiotic resistance: an analytic comparison and discussion of policy implications. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 2021; 8: 125 Crossref Scopus (12) Google Scholar ). The population group bearing much of the brunt of the changing bacterial landscape is perhaps less obvious.