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At least part of the answer is to use antibiotics less, and to do more to ensure that when they are used, the full course is used.
by tnorthcutt 13y ago
At least part of the answer is to use antibiotics less, and to do more to ensure that when they are used, the full course is used.
- pyre 13y agoThis prevents production of more resistant strains, but we already have resistant strains out there. (Also, @pearjuice seemed to indirectly imply that the ability to improve our existing antibiotics was a bad thing)
- learc83 13y ago>but we already have resistant strains out there. But those resistant strains will be outcompeted by non-resistant strains without the presence of anti-biotics. There is a fitness cost to most resistance mechanisms [1] [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20208551 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20208551
- derleth 13y ago> At least part of the answer is to use antibiotics less, and to do more to ensure that when they are used, the full course is used. If it gets bad enough, outpatient antibiotics use will be a thing of the past. Need antibiotics? You're staying in a facility where someone will monitor you and make sure you take the full course and don't make our resistance problems worse. It won't necessarily be a hospital and you won't necessarily be watched by doctors or nurses, but compliance will be mandatory and enforced. I hope it doesn't get that bad.