Nautilus presents: A dispatch from the front lines of the war against antibiotic resistance.

Date: May 24, 2018

Source: Nautilus – Biology/Health

Author: Julian G. West

Excerpt: “An estimated 2 million Americans are infected with antibiotic resistant microbes every year and, of these, about 23,000 die.4 Humans have known how to kill bacteria since before the dawn of civilization. So why is killing bacteria in patients resisting the combined efforts of modern science?”

Link: http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/why-new-antibiotics-are-so-hard-to-find