4. Discussion
The invention of antibiotics is essential in saving millions of lives,
however, the indiscriminate and inappropriate use of it complicated to
the development of antibiotics resistance whereby the microorganisms
undergo persistent evolutionary changes.16 Hence,
instead of saving lives, it also endangers millions of lives with
life-threatening infectious diseases. In the absence of urgent
corrective and protective actions, the world is heading towards a
post-antibiotic era, in which many common infections will no longer have
a cure and, once again, kill unabated.15,16