All > Healthcare > Medicine > Malaria

• Antimicrobial resistance is the result of microbes changing in ways that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of drugs, chemicals, or other agents to cure or prevent infections.

  CDC - Cite This Source - This Definition
  ×

  Cite Definition for Antimicrobial resistance

  American Psychological Association (APA)

  Antimicrobial resistance. (n.d.). Malaria Glossary. Retrieved May 28, 2023, from website: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/antimicrobial-resistance.

  Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)

  Antimicrobial resistance. www.cdc.gov. Malaria Glossary. CDC. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/antimicrobial-resistance (accessed: May 28, 2023).

  Modern Language Association (MLA)

  "Antimicrobial resistance." Malaria Glossary. CDC. 28 May. 2023 http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/antimicrobial-resistance.

• Browse Related Terms: antibiotic, Antimicrobial agents, Antimicrobial resistance, Aralen, Chloroquine, Cryptic malaria, DEET, Diurnal, drug resistance, Fansidar, Halofantrine, Icterus, prophylaxis, Rigor, Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, vaccine