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An ambitious plan to stop the rise of superbugs

  • Written by David Pride, Associate Director of Microbiology, University of California San Diego
These bacteria are resistant to antibiotics.Melissa Brower/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP

Antibiotic resistance is here to stay, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do anything to stop it.

A headline that always catches my attention is that antibiotic resistance is on the rise. Underlying these headlines is that the...

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