11-30-2015, 10:51 AM
(11-25-2015, 12:24 AM)Beaker Wrote: The strain has not only evolved resistance, but is passing that gene to other strains of bacteria. That's what makes it so worrysome. It has the potential to spread total bacterial resistance to all antibiotics very quickly.....more quickly than we can develop new methods to combat it. I suspect we may have to take an entirely new approach to the problem, maybe gene therapy or something similar.
As I said, we see the problem and will figure it out. It has been long understood this would happen eventually in the medical community, but it's just a matter of finding a new solution to the problem. it may be a new delivery method, it may be some sort of targeted approach, it could be masking, etc. With it becoming more of an issue it will get more research money from pharmaceutical. Historically little has been spent on development because the drugs we have had for years did the job, and there was little money to be made because all the patents had expired. With those drugs becoming less effective expect an uptick in new drugs as there is now a need and the ability to put out a patent-able drug that can be used by a large portion of the population.
