The antibiotic dilemma today

摘要

More folks recognize the need to safeguard antibiotics for future use, but we're a long way from figuring out how. First of a six-part series investigating the future of antibiotics in beef production.'We're reaching a postantibiotic era where we have patientswith infections that we can't treat," says Kurt Stevenson, a physician and medical director at Ohio State University. "Antibiotics are unlike any other drug, in that use of theagent in one patient can compromise its efficacy in another."Stevenson shared insights from the medical community at the Antibiotic Use Symposium hosted by the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) last fall — the sixth in as many years.