NIH says drug-resistant infections now a ’serious threat’ to global health

by Infection Protection Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2008 at 4:56 PM

Drug-resistant infections are now a “major public health threat” globally, according to Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Drug-resistant infections are now a “major public health threat” globally, according to Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

“Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are just two recent examples of this problem that pose serious threats to domestic and global health,” he says. By Gene Koprowski





Original: NIH says drug-resistant infections now a ’serious threat’ to global health