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Nature 431, 892-893 (21 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/431892a; Published online 20 October 2004
Antibiotics: A shot in the arm
Martin Leeb1
- Martin Leeb was until recently an intern in the Munich office of Nature.
Abstract
Antibiotics are failing and drug companies have all but stopped developing new ones. Will conquered diseases come back to haunt us? Martin Leeb examines one plan to avert the crisis.
In the late 1960s the battle against bacterial infections was considered won, in the developed world at least. By the time of Woodstock, antibiotics were curing previously lethal infections in a matter of days.
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