Mistreating the treatment: the struggle against antibiotic resistance
Posted by:
Paul Cosford, Posted on:
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Categories:
Antimicrobial resistance, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health
Antibiotics have been around for nearly 70 years. Many people still alive today may remember them first being used to treat casualties from the Second World War. Around 1944 a newspaper billboard proclaimed that ‘Penicillin cures gonorrhoea in four hours …