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Antibiotic Resistance
Posted by Michael Forrest on 30 March 2013 | 0 Comments
The emergence of "superbugs", bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, is shaping up as one of the greatest world-wide health-care challenges of the (still relatively) new century. Infectious Diseases (ID) Physicians warn of a coming "Red Plague" that threatens to effectively take us back to the pre-antibiotic era, when people died of what are currently considered minor infections, due to increasing Gram-negative resistance.