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On the antibiotics front, the weather has occasionally been bad ever since I can remember. But things have never been as bad as they are today. Bacteria are becoming resistant to the point where none of our available antibiotics work for some of the infections that confront patients and physicians in hospitals around the US and the around world. For these patients we are slipping back in time to a pre-antibiotic era where we have little to offer but comfort for diseases which we have been easily able to cure over the last 50 years.
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Shlaes, D.M. (2010). The Perfect Storm. In: Antibiotics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9057-7_1
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