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The most powerful ones have to be used as rarely as possible, to give bacteria fewer opportunities to develop resistances.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2024

Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, pathogens are quickly building up resistances to once-successful treatments.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

In the 1940's and '50's, when humans first began taking antibiotics, the resistances were already in the environment and worked their way into the bacteria that cause human infection.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

Over time, populations within any species of bacteria emerge with one, then two or more resistances to antibiotics, until we get potentially untreatable super strains.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2023

That something seemed to have rules and resistances of its own, ones that did not stem from me.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann