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Antimicrobial resistance: revisiting the "tragedy of the commons"
John Conly is a Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is...
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Maryn McKenna on the post-antibiotic planet
…our post-antibiotic grandchildren will be less healthy than we are: more likely to die young or spend their lives crippled by disease. In the face of such a large problem, it’s an amazement that our...
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Multi-drug resistant staph in 25% of supermarket meat samples
This should make you very angry – that farmers are still allowed to use unjustified, excessive application of antibiotics in industrial animal husbandry. Maryn McKenna writing for Ars Technica reports...
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Antibiotic-resistance: we need better incentives
(…) And going to the hospital has itself become alarmingly risky. Already, 1.7 million people in the U.S. acquire infections in the hospital each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths, according to the...
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Antibiotic resistance: a return to the pre-antibiotic world is coming faster...
Photo credit: Julian Stratenschulte/EPA/Corbis We are seeing an alarming increase in new reports on the growth rate of antibiotic resistance. We cannot forecast the future date when we will return to...
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Maryn McKenna: When We Lose Antibiotics, Here’s Everything Else We’ll Lose Too
Maryn McKenna has a terrifying “report from the field” of the fast-approaching post-antibiotic world. That we are living in New Zealand amplifies the report only slightly, because this reality is...
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Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling...
Maryn McKenna cited this book, so after reading hair-curling reviews I just bought the Kindle edition. Maybe no sleep tonight… Antibiotic-resistant microbes infect more than 2 million Americans and...
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Recommendations for the control of Multi-drug resistant Gram-negatives>...
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Recommendations for the control of Multi-drug resistant Gram-negatives: carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (October 2013). Sydney....
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FDA restricts antibiotic use in livestock
This is the best news in a long time. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday put in place a major new policy to phase out the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in cows, pigs and...
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