Bacterial resistance to antibiotics has been a recognizedreality almost since the dawn of the antibiotic era, but onlywithin the past twenty years has the emergence of dangerous,resistant strains occurred with a disturbing regularity. Tisescalating evolution of resistance coupled with a diminishedantibiotic pipeline has led some to claim that a post-antibioticera is eminent.1 Given that the three main causes of deathin pre-antibiotic America were tuberculosis, pneumonia, andgastrointestinal infections, which combined accounted for30% of all deaths, this is a frightening prospect.2 Tough weare still far from that scenario becoming reality, the trend in
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