Department of Microbiology, Toronto Medical Laboratories and the Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada dlow@mtsinai.on.ca or amcgeer@mtsinai.on.ca
A new model addresses the evolutionary mechanisms for antibiotic resistance and comes up with some grim forecasts. In the United States, resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to two commonly prescribed antibiotics is predicted to reach 41% by 2004 (pages 424−430).
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