Current strategy for medicating patients may be giving many drug-resistant diseases a big competitive advantage

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 16:30 in Biology & Nature

In the war between drugs and drug-resistant diseases, the current strategy for medicating patients may be giving many drug-resistant diseases a big competitive advantage, according to a new article. The paper argues for new research efforts to discover effective ways for managing the evolution and slowing the spread of drug-resistant disease organisms.

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