The impact of the emerging and re-emerging diseases in India has been tremendous at socioeconomic and public health levels occurring due to poor sanitation & malnutrition etc.
Emerging & re-emerging zoonotic diseases like plaque caused by Yersinia pestis, anthrax, and food borne Listerosis casued by Listeria monocytogenes and waterborne diseases typhoid caused by salmonella typhi, cholera caused by Vibrio cholera etc and diseases caused by multiresistant organisms like Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus constitute the major threats in India
There have been threats of new diseases during the past three decades due to the evolution and adaptation of microbes and the re-emergence of old diseases due to the development of antimicrobial resistance
Infectious diseases still remain a leading cause of global disease burden with high morbidity and mortality
The control measures require appropriate antibiotic therapy
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