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The problem is so big and so bad that even our government officials openly admit that squandering antibiotics on livestock is a major threat to public health -- and that we will not be able to win the battle against drug-resistance unless we end the practice.
Laurie David: Groups Sue FDA for Putting Pigs Before People Laurie David 2011
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The problem is so big and so bad that even our government officials openly admit that squandering antibiotics on livestock is a major threat to public health -- and that we will not be able to win the battle against drug-resistance unless we end the practice.
Laurie David: Groups Sue FDA for Putting Pigs Before People Laurie David 2011
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The problem is so big and so bad that even our government officials openly admit that squandering antibiotics on livestock is a major threat to public health -- and that we will not be able to win the battle against drug-resistance unless we end the practice.
Laurie David: Groups Sue FDA for Putting Pigs Before People Laurie David 2011
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The gene is carried on a plasmid, a small section of DNA that can move from one bug to another, passing on drug-resistance as it goes.
Antibiotics' efficiency wanes due to global spread of drug-resistant bacteria 2010
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I suggest the major flaw in your SSRN paper is that you have offered no evidence that any plausible alteration of antibiotic use patterns would change the time-scale of the evolution of drug-resistance.
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Soon tall grass grew on it, and drug-resistance bacteria frolicked on the blades, waiting for a passer-by.
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But second-line drugs are far more expensive than first-line drugs, and many scientists believed that the drug-resistance problem would eventually take care of itself.
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Levels of drug-resistance in TB patients in most parts of the South-East Asian Region are still low, at less than 3%, due to good implementation of basic directly-observed treatment short-course (DOTS).
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Soon tall grass grew on it, and drug-resistance bacteria frolicked on the blades, waiting for a passer-by.
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These include the species of the infecting parasite, the area where the infection was acquired, and its drug-resistance status.
Malaria 2008
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