Antibiotic resistanceAND THE GLOBAL THREAT TO HUMAN HEALTH

摘要

Last November, scientists at South China Agricultural University carrying out routine surveillance of bacteria from farm animals noticed a major increase in resistance to the little-known antibiotic, colistin.They investigated further and what they found stunned the scientific world and led to headlines about how modern medicine was losing its most precious resource - antibiotics - due in part to their overuse in intensive livestock farming.