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Newsweek 2016

To fight superbugs, scientists are turning toward antibodies

 

“‘The bottom line is that the bacteria now develop resistance to anti-infectious agents faster than we can develop the anti-infectious agents,’ says Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, a professor at Rockefeller University who studies how genetic coding can make a person more susceptible to disease. ‘If we continue to rely solely on antibiotics, we are going to have a problem.'”