“How do bacteria (and viruses and fungi and…) become resistant to antibiotics and how we can stop it”
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Julian Davies FACTS: 1. When antibiotics were first introduced into clinical practice, most pathogens were sensitive and were killed. That is the patients were cured. 2. As more and more antibiotics have been developed and used, the success rate has decreased; the pathogens are becoming less susceptible (in other words they are becoming resistant [...]