Re:The antimicrobial resistance crisis needs action now
by mikeiz404 on Monday December 26, 2022 @12:59AM
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Edit: Apparently broad spectrum antibiotics can actually lead to antimicrobial resistance [1][2]
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> I actually think this is good since it means we postpone usage of, and thereby resistance to, any new antibiotics.
This is true if you use them in isolation but I thought broad spectrum antibiotics, aka many at once, is what is typical now to slow down development of resistance? In this case you’d want to develop a few new ones and deploy them in batch.
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> I actually think this is good since it means we postpone usage of, and thereby resistance to, any new antibiotics.
This is true if you use them in isolation but I thought broad spectrum antibiotics, aka many at once, is what is typical now to slow down development of resistance? In this case you’d want to develop a few new ones and deploy them in batch.
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-spectrum_antibiotic
2: https://www.science.org/content/article/combining-antibiotic...