"Antibiotics are societal drugs. Individual use affects all members of society."
"Selection of antibiotic resistant bacteria occurs in every antibiotic user, and can be spread to family members and others who share a health facility, community, or environment."
"Antibiotics should have a special regulatory category to improve how they are used, marketed and developed through incentives to industry."
Stuart B. Levy, MD
President of the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Symposium celebrating 25th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine, 1996.
The Antibiotic Paradox (2nd edition), 2002.
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