Tim LaPara is an environmental engineer at the University of Minnesota. He and his students are investigating the environment, searching for antimicrobial-resistant genes in materials like human and animal waste. There, the bacteria compound the problem.
There are predictions that antimicrobial resistance will actually be responsible for more deaths in the next 50 years than cancer.”
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The problem with antibiotic resistance is almost certainly related to how much antibiotics we use. The unfortunate part of that is we can’t stop using antibiotics. They’re incredibly important. This is called the antibiotic resistance paradox – the thing that we need destroys the thing that we need,” he says. “So, we need other solutions beyond reducing antibiotics use.”
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