...To­wards More Eco­log­i­cal An­timi­cro­bial Ther­a­pies
by Roberto — The re­mark­able trans­for­ma­tion in the con­trol of in­fec­tious dis­eases by an­tibi­otics is one of the glo­ri­ous sto­ries in mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy. But now, al­most in­sep­a­ra­ble from their dis­cov­ery and ap­pli­ca­tion, is its nasty se­quel, the rapid evo­lu­tion of an­tibi­otic re­sis­tance. We con­tin­u­ally read re­ports of the dire pub­lic health sit­u­a­tion that we may...