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Antibiotics: Change Route of Delivery to Mitigate Resistance

June 28, 2013

Antibiotics: Change Route of Delivery to Mitigate Resistance

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WASHINGTON, DC – June 26, 2013 -- New research suggests that the rapid rise of antibiotic resistance correlates with oral ingestion of antibiotics, raising the possibility that other routes of administration could reduce the spread of resistance.  The manuscript appears online ahead of print in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

“For more than 40 years, a few doses of penicillin were enough to take care of deadly bacterial infections,” says Hua Wang of the Ohio State University, Columbus, a researcher on the study. But since the 1980s, antibiotic resistance has been spreading rapidly, disabling once-powerful agents, leaving increasing numbers of patients to suffer, and even to die.

CONTACT:  Jim Sliwa
jsliwa@asmusa.org

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