American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science & Technology Policy Fellow, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense, Washington, DC 20301, USA.
Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Trends Microbiol. 2016 Jul;24(7):515-517. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.04.003. Epub 2016 May 24.
Antibiotic resistance is on the rise while the number of antibiotics being brought to market continues to drop. While this is a dire situation, a number of emerging technologies have the potential to reverse this trend. These, and supporting legislative initiatives, promise to stave off the post-antibiotic era.
抗生素耐药性呈上升趋势,而推向市场的抗生素数量继续下降。虽然这是一个严峻的局面,但一些新兴技术有潜力扭转这一趋势。这些技术以及配套的立法倡议有望避免后抗生素时代的到来。