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Nature Medicine 12, 890–891 (1 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/nm0806-890

Side effects may include evolution

Ryan T Cirz , Neill Gingles & Floyd E Romesberg

Throughout history, perhaps more people have died from bacterial infections than from any other disease. The introduction and widespread use of antibiotics in the first half of the twentieth century promised to finally rid humanity of one of its oldest and greatest threats.