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Where next for antibiotics?
Author(s) -
Hunter Philip
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2012.101
Subject(s) - antibiotics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathogenicity , public health , pathogenic bacteria , disease , antibiotic resistance , drug resistance , immune system , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , immunology , medicine , genetics , nursing , pathology
The prevalence of drug resistance in major pathogenic bacteria is an increasingly severe public health problem. In addition to looking for new antibiotics, researchers are focusing on the immune system and the nature of pathogenicity itself to devise new strategies for fighting infectious disease.