Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic Resistance: Origins, Evolution, Selection and Spread
Chairman: Stuart B. Levy, 1997

Over the last 50 years, the rapid increase in the use of antibiotics, not only in people, but also in animal husbandry and agriculture, has delivered a selection unprecedented in the history of evolution. Consequently, society is facing one of its gravest public health problems-the emergence of infectious...