New Antibiotics and New Resistance
By Carlos F. Amabile-Cuevas
In many ways, the fight against antibiotic resistance is already lost; preventing bacterial disease requires thoughtful new approaches
This Article From Issue
March-April 2003
Volume 91, Number 2
Page 138
DOI: 10.1511/2003.12.138
Bacterial infections have been a scourge on humankind for millennia. Plague, tuberculosis, wound infections and typhoid fever have caused historical as well as personal tragedies. No wonder, then, that antibiotics were greeted as miracle drugs.
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