TY - JOUR
T1 - Prophylactic Antibiotics?
T2 - The Individual versus the Community
AU - Sack, R. Bradley
PY - 1979/5/10
Y1 - 1979/5/10
N2 - The medical community continues to witness the remarkable versatility of micro-organisms as they successfully adapt to living with antibiotics and related antimicrobial agents. The staphylococcus and gramnegative enteric organisms first demonstrated these adaptive abilities; now others have joined their ranks: the gonococcus, Haemophilus influenzae and most recently the pneumococcus. Some scientists believe that we may indeed be returning to a “pre-antibiotic era,” in which these transformed multiresistant micro-organisms will again devastate mankind. This alarm is due to the observed selective pressure in both human and nonhuman microbial environments exerted by the widespread and ever-increasing use of antibiotics. Micro-organisms selected because.
AB - The medical community continues to witness the remarkable versatility of micro-organisms as they successfully adapt to living with antibiotics and related antimicrobial agents. The staphylococcus and gramnegative enteric organisms first demonstrated these adaptive abilities; now others have joined their ranks: the gonococcus, Haemophilus influenzae and most recently the pneumococcus. Some scientists believe that we may indeed be returning to a “pre-antibiotic era,” in which these transformed multiresistant micro-organisms will again devastate mankind. This alarm is due to the observed selective pressure in both human and nonhuman microbial environments exerted by the widespread and ever-increasing use of antibiotics. Micro-organisms selected because.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197905103001910
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197905103001910
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 107451
AN - SCOPUS:0018391652
VL - 300
SP - 1107
EP - 1108
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
SN - 0028-4793
IS - 19
ER -