INFECTIONSMore research went into antibiotic production and today, there are hundreds of antibiotics in the market targeting various types of bacterial infections. Owing to their efficiency in disease cure, antibiotics have been called “magic bullets”. We recently joined the rest of the world in celebrating the antibiotic resistance awareness week. The production of antibiotics is expensive and time consuming; making antibiotics resistance so costly. We have to jealously guard against antibiotic resistance through judicious use of what we have as we can’t afford the cost of total antibiotic resistance.

Source: Daily Nation November 21, 2017 20:48 UTC