Tackling antibiotic resistance

Abstract

The increasing levels of antibiotic resistance observed in clinical isolates, coupled with a lack of new drugs coming through the development pipeline, make the problem of antibiotic resistance a global crisis. In this Essay, Davies and colleagues draw up a priority list of urgent steps and future research directions that are needed to tackle this growing problem.

Authors

Bush K; Courvalin P; Dantas G; Davies J; Eisenstein B; Huovinen P; Jacoby GA; Kishony R; Kreiswirth BN; Kutter E

Journal

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Vol. 9, No. 12, pp. 894–896

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

December 1, 2011

DOI

10.1038/nrmicro2693

ISSN

1740-1526

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Gerard Wright

Scientific Director, Faculty of Health Sciences

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