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RE: Stopping Post Surgical Infections With Small Pieces of Protein (Peptides)

in #steemstem7 years ago

One of the best tools we have in combatting antimicrobial resistance is not, in fact, creating new antibiotics. But in better controlling and monitoring how we use the antibiotics we have, often called Antimicrobial Stewardship. If we limit the amount of exposure that bacteria have to antibiotics then there won't be a strong enough selective pressure for them to evolve the resistance we are all so afraid of!

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We should always be doing that though. We should also always be developing new antibiotics.