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Antibiotic resistance is at a crisis point – government support for academia and Big Pharma to find new drugs could help defeat superbugs

  • Written by Andre Hudson, Professor and Head of the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
Antibiotic resistance is at a crisis point – government support for academia and Big Pharma to find new drugs could help defeat superbugsBacteria that are resistant to every available antibiotic in the U.S. already exist.Rodolfo Parulan Jr/Moment via Getty Images

Antibiotic resistance poses one of the most important health challenges of the 21st century. And time has already run out to stop its dire consequences.

The rise of multidrug-resistant bacteria has already led to a...

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