An Emptying Quiver: Antimicrobial Drugs and Resistance
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An Emptying Quiver: Antimicrobial Drugs and Resistance
has shadowed the success of infectious disease therapy. In his 1945 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Alexander Fleming noted the danger of resistance: “It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body.... Moral: If you use penicillin, use enough” (...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid1106.050471