A color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing Salmonella Typhimurium (red) invading cultured human cells. Image courtesy of Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH. Public domain image.
In our next episode, out Tuesday, we survey the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria and why the crisis isn’t being addressed as quickly as it should.
Reading List:
The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis, by C. Lee Ventola – Pharmacy and Therapeutics
The Epidemic of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections: A Call to Action for the Medical Community from the Infectious Diseases Society of America - http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/2/155.long
Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics – Tufts University
The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain – Project Gutenberg
Maimed Men – U.S. National Library of Medicine
Life before antibiotics (and maybe life after an antibiotic apocalypse), by Toby Sealey - BBC
Per Capita Consumption of Poultry and Livestock, 1965 to Estimated 2016, in Pounds – National Chicken Council
Average Retail Food and Energy Prices, U.S. and Midwest Region – U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Perdue to Eliminate Antibiotics in Some Chicken Products, by Jacob Bunge – The Wall Street Journal
What Does “Antibiotic-Free” Really Mean? Insight from a Contract Chicken Farmer, by Sarah Damian – Food Integrity Campaign
CDC: 1 in 3 antibiotic prescriptions unnecessary – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Prevalence of Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescriptions Among US Ambulatory Care Visits, 2010-2011, by Katherine E. Fleming-Dutra, Adam L. Hersh, Daniel J. Shapiro, Monina Bartoces, Eva A. Enns, Thomas M. File Jr, Jonathan A. Finkelstein, Jeffrey S. Gerber, David Y. Hyun, Jeffrey A. Linder, Ruth Lynfield, David J. Margolis, Larissa S. May, Daniel Merenstein, Joshua P. Metlay, Jason G. Newland, Jay F. Piccirillo, Rebecca M. Roberts, Guillermo V. Sanchez, Katie J. Suda, Ann Thomas, Teri Moser Woo, Rachel M. Zetts, and Lauri A. Hicks – The Journal of the American Medical Association
A Brief History of the Antibiotic Era: Lessons Learned and Challenges for the Future, by Rustam I. Aminov – Frontiers in Microbiology
An enzyme from bacteria able to destroy penicillin. 1940, by E.P. Abraham and E. Chain – Reviews of Infectious Diseases
Antibiotic resistance: The last resort, by Maryn McKenna – Nature
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Healthcare Settings – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Why are there so few antibiotics in the research and development pipeline? by Elizabeth Sukkar – The Pharmaceutical Journal
What is FMT? – The Fecal Transplant Foundation
Viruses join fight against harmful bacteria, by Anne Trafton – MIT News
Music Notes (In order of appearance)
Mystery Mammal – The Wonders of Modern Technology
Kai Engel - Anxiety
Cyrus - Pneuma
Sul Rebel - Rebel Blues
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