Doctors enlisted to turn the tide on antibiotic resistance

Behavior change — among prescribers and patients — can combat resistant microbes

The bacterium Clostridium difficile

LOW-TECH BACTERIA BATTLE  Clostridium difficile (shown) is common in hospitals and is hard to treat.

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It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them….