“We need to do what we can do to prevent bacterial infections, and when treating them to consider that effective antibiotics are a finite resource,” he said. “We all have a responsibility in attempting to conserve that resource.”
“No new classes of antibiotics have been developed in the last 30 years – this and the dire situation in both the developed and the developing world suggests that the ‘global problem’ of antibiotic resistance is going to become more and more of an issue in years and decades to come,” Dr. Russell concluded.
