“These results add another dimension to the evolution of resistance and suggest that the low antibiotic concentrations found in many natural environments are important for enrichment and maintenance of resistance in bacterial populations.”
I get a feeling that antibiotics will soon become as archaic as blood-letting. The sooner we deal with the consequences that any amount of the current selection of antibiotics is just generating super-bugs, the sooner we can get off traditional antibiotics. I’m really hopeful of new ways to controls microorganisms that would be a healthier mix (rather than the usual single target that can be evolved around) of other microorganisms, highly specific chemicals, and targeted designed nucleic acids.
But, then again, what do I know? What do you think of the future of antibiotics?
