U.S. Officials Discuss Approaches To Addressing Antibiotic Resistance

Pew Charitable Trusts: How Federal Agencies Address Superbugs
Allan Coukell, senior director of health programs at Pew, discusses the threat of antibiotic resistance and highlights several previously published Pew articles on U.S. efforts to address it. Coukell writes, “In the following Q&As, leaders from federal agencies key to U.S. efforts to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria weigh in on this pressing public health issue, what they’re doing to address it, and what they believe needs to be done to win the war against superbugs” (5/31).

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