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According to CDC data from 2013, antibiotic resistance results in more than 2 million illnesses and 23,000 deaths every year

Antimicrobial Stewardship: Ensuring a Future for Human Health Care

August 25, 2017

“...23,000 deaths a year.”  “...over 2 million infections.”  These headlines would be alarming but expected if they were descriptions of the latest Ebola outbreak. But alas, these are “conservative, minimum estimates” of antibiotic-resistant infections each year in the United States, as projected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Dangers of Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotics […]

Benjamin Bell ⋅ Perspectives in Research antibiotic resistance ⋅

antibiotics put everyone at risk.

Bugs Resistant to Drugs: What Can We Do?

February 6, 2017

In September 2016, a Nevada woman died of a bacterial infection. The woman, in her 70s, had been hospitalized previously in India due to a fracture of her right leg, which led to bone infections and more subsequent hospitalizations. During these infections, she almost certainly received antibiotics to help her recover, especially given that in […]

Sarah Robbins ⋅ Perspectives in Research antibiotic resistance, antibiotics ⋅

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