Researcher Calls For New Understanding Of Antibiotic Resistance And Disease To End Growing Scourge Of 'Superbugs'

With the rising awareness of the so-called "superbugs," bacteria that are resistant to most known antibiotics, three infectious disease experts writing in the New England Journal of Medicine called for novel approaches based on a "reconceptualization of the nature of resistance, disease and prevention." "Antibiotic-resistant microbes infect more than 2 million Americans every year and kill more than 100,000 annually," said Brad Spellberg, M.D... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..