The World Health Organisation has highlighted seven species of bacteria that are aquiring high levels of antibiotic resistence. These all cause relatively common diseases and infection.
WHO officials have warned of a crisis that is threatening to turn these common infections, which are currently easily treated with a short course of drugs, into major killers again.
These are bacteria and the infections they cause:
E.coli - causes bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections, wound infections
Klebsiella pneumoniae - bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections, wound infections
Staphyococcus aureus (MRSA) - skin infections, wound infections, bloodstream infections, arthritis
Streptococcus pneumoniae - skin infections, sore throats, pneumonia, meningitis, bronchitis, conjunctivitis
Nontyphoidal Salmonella - diarrhoea
Shigella species - diarrhoea and dysentry
Neisseria gonorrhoeae - gonorrhoea