title: Antibiotic resistance: A current epilogue.
abstract: The history of the first commercial antibiotics is briefly reviewed, together with data from the US and WHO, showing the decrease in death due to infectious diseases over the 20th century, from just under half of all deaths, to less than 10%. The second half of the 20th century saw the new use of antibiotics as growth promoters for food animals in the human diet, and the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st saw the beginning and rapid rise of advanced microbial resistance to antibiotics.
authors.affiliation: Dodds & Associates LLC, 4686 Druids Glen, Manlius, NY 13104, USA. Electronic address: ddodds@techdiligence.net.
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Dodds
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D010407:Penicillium / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
keywords: Advanced microbial resistance; Antibiotic growth promoters; Antibiotic resistance