Antibiotic resistance hits crisis point

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3104-3106, 2016, pág. 32
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A major menace looms over us. In 2017, many more people could begin dying from common bacterial infections. As resistance to antibiotics booms, diseases from gonorrhoea to urinary tract infections are becoming untreatable--a situation that looks set to get worse as the world reaches a new tipping point next year. They are about to reach the point where more antibiotics will be consumed by farm animals worldwide than by humans, says Mark Woolhouse, at the University of Edinburgh, UK.