Extending the Cure: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance

by David Howard, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Anup Malani, et al.

Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sustaining a supply of effective and affordable antibiotics cannot be without changes to the incentives facing patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. In fact, increasing resistance to these drugs is already exacting a terrible price. Every day in the United States, approximately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933115572
• ISBN13: 9781933115573
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 11.0"