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Q&A: Antibiotic resistance: where does it come from and what can we do about it?
14 Sept 2010
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Yes. Historically, the discovery of the sulfa drugs in the 1930s and the subsequent development of penicillin during World War II ushered in a new era in the treatment of infectious diseases. Infections that were common causes of death and disease in the pre-antibiotic era -rheumatic fever, syphilis, cellulitis and bacterial pneumonia -became treatable, and over the next 20 years most of the classes of...
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