Paradise lost? Microbes mount a comeback as drug resistance spreads

Article Abstract:

More and more types of bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics, which increases deaths and medical costs. Some pathogens are resistant to several drugs. Physicians can help impede the spread of drug resistance by using the least powerful antibiotic that is effective.

Health aspects, Usage, Infection, Drug therapy

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Resisting resistance: experts worldwide mobilize against drug-resistant germs

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More disease-causing organisms are developing resistance to antibiotics, which causes more global epidemics to occur. The epidemics of Ebola virus in Zaire and pneumonic plague in India in 1995 demonstrate the need for more discriminate use of antibiotics.

Management, Dosage and administration, Epidemics

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Picking on cotton: engineered crops need fewer pesticides but may foster resistance

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Cotton and corn engineered to produce their own supply of bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) may encourage insecticide resistant pests. Bt is a naturally occurring insecticide that inhibits the tobacco budworm but seems to encourage the bollworm.

Methods, Evaluation, Corn, Cotton (Fiber), Diseases and pests, Insecticide resistance, Cotton, Cotton (Fibre), Agricultural engineering, Recombinant microbial toxins

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