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Re:First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major brea... by sndean on Monday September 05, 2016 @02:36AM (#12428534)
Unless there's some unforeseen toxicity, I don't think they should make it a last resort drug. Just use when necessary.

We already have some very effective, semi-toxic antibiotics like colistin and other peptide-based antibiotics that we use as last resorts.

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Re:First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major brea... by kyriakos on Monday September 05, 2016 @03:35AM (#12428716)
"use when necessary" is really hard to achieve I think. Will be easier to make a policy to keep the medicine use under control rather than change people's mentality over over-prescribing (includes both doctors and patients - all are guilty)
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