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Antibiotic Resistance Is Not A Priority In The U.S.
Author and journalist Maryn McKenna in her "Superbug" blog on Wired.com examines U.S. spending on drug-resistant pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). She examines data presented by Eli Perencevich of the University of Iowa and colleagues at the World HAI Forum, which looked at how much of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' budget went to the problem of drug-resistant diseases versus other infectious diseases. "They found the answer to be: Not very much," she writes.
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