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Artificial Intelligence, Internet of (Diagnostic) Things and Blockchain have the potential to reverse the tide in the global fight against against Antimicrobial resistance.

Within the context of the fourth industrial revolution Information and Data Technologies are no longer a supporting tool but a value-creating factor vital for the policy and strategy of every organization. A broad social development is going on in which data and data analysis plays a central role.

Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to become insensitive to the action of an antibiotic: the specific antibiotic does no longer inhibit the growth of the bacteria or the bacteria are no longer killed by the antibiotic. Treatment of a patient or sick animal with the antibiotic to which the bacteria are resistant has no effect: the bacteria continue to grow undisturbedly and the infectious disease may further develop.

Antibiotics are substances that specifically inhibit the growth of bacteria or even kill bacteria.

Bacteria are small, single-celled microorganisms that belong to the oldest life form on earth. Bacteria exist about 3.5 billion years (the earth about 4 billion years).

A few years ago my neighbor urgently had to be hospitalized. He was suffering from a serious infection, lost consciousness and was treated with various antibiotics at the intensive care unit.