How Antimicrobial Resistance Spreads and the Phenomenon of Selective Pressure Hello everyone, I continue my post on the Antimicrobial Resistance series. As promised, I will be talking about how antimicrobial resistance spreads and the phenomenon of Selective Pressure. Just take a few minutes to look at the image above. It perfectly summarizes how antimicrobial resistance spreads between humans, animals and the environment. Antimicrobial resistance is said to have spread when resistant microbes spread from person to person. Antimicrobial Resistance spreads same way infections are spread such as through poor hygiene, unclean facilities, sexual contacts, air borne e.t.c. Hence there goes the saying, Resistance anywhere is Resistance everywhere. Secondly, I must establish the concept of Selective Pressure. When antibiotics are consumed in the presence of a drug-resistant microbe, the antibiotic will destroy susceptible microbes and promote the...