Antibiotic resistance is a serious and growing phenomenon in contemporary medicine and has emerged as one of the eminent public health concerns of the 21st century, particularly as it pertains to pathogenic organisms (the term is not especially relevant to organisms which don't cause disease in humans).
Otpornost na antibiotike je ozbiljan i rastući fenomen savremene medicine i postao je jednim od najeminentnijih javnih zdravstvenih problema 21-vog veka, posebno u pogledu patogenih organizama (termin ima posebnu relevantanost za organizame koji uzrokuju bolesti kod ljudi).