How do antibiotic-resistant bacteria get into the environment?
- Written by Suzanne Young, Ph.D. student, University of South Florida
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem. The United Nations recently acknowledged this as “one of the biggest threats to modern medicine,” dedicating a high-level meeting to the issue at the 2016 General Assembly.
In the U.S. at least two million people are infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria and 23,000 die each...
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