Antibiotic

Antibiotic Resistance

D.Bankim The convergence of factors such as poor public health infrastructure, rising incomes, a high burden of disease and unregulated sales of antibiotics has created ideal conditions for a rapid rise in resistant infections in India. A person cannot become resistant to antibiotics. Resistance is a property of the microbe, not a person or other […]

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The Post Antibiotic Era – is it inevitable?

Samya Sen In September 1928, a man named Alexander Fleming changed the course of human history by gifting humanity with the idea of antibiosis. He worked as a bacteriologist at St. Mary’s hospital in London and had returned from summer vacation to his lab. While discarding old Petri dishes, he found that some of

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