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Antibiotic resistance must be monitored, US Senate is told

Paul Smaglik

The United States needs a better monitoring system to combat the threat posed by the rising number of bacteria resistant to existing antibiotics, federal officials told a Senate hearing last week.Apart from drug-resistant tuberculosis, which is tracked in all 50 states, monitoring of antibiotic-resistant microbes remains relatively fragmented.