Growing Resistance with Antibiotics

by Karl S. Drlica

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This Element is an excerpt from Antibiotic Resistance: Understanding and Responding to an Emerging Crisis (9780131387737) by Karl Drlica and David S. Perlin. Available in print and digital formats. The truth behind the headlines: What antibiotic resistance is, why it's growing, and what this means to human health. As a global community, we have not considered antibiotics as a resource to be actively protected. Consequently, we use antibiotics in ways that directly lead to resistance. Changing those ways requires an understanding of antibiotic principles. We begin with a brief description of MRSA to illustrate a bacterial-based health problem....
  • ISBN10 0132660024
  • ISBN13 9780132660020
  • Publish Date 18 January 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint FT Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English