Resistance Fighters: Evolutionary biologists are challenging old dogmas about the way antibiotics should be used

http://ift.tt/24otx4G Great article in Science by Kai Kupferschmidt on research into the evolutionary approach to antibiotic use by Andrew Read and Robert Woods. It all stemmed from a severely compromised patient for which Woods was running out of ideas in trying to treat galloping antibiotic resistance to the several insidious forms of microbial infection common […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/1WA0T1n