Able Quote by Bonnie Bassler

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going…

— Bonnie Bassler

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's…

— Anthony Fauci

Antibiotic resistance is as old as the dirt that coats our planet.

— Scott Gottlieb

Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly,…

— Margaret Chan

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“Rather than say that the bacterium gained resistance to the antibiotic, we would be more correct to say that it lost its sensitivity to…

— Lee Spetner

“It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon…

— Carl Zimmer

“exposure to antibiotics early in life causes microbial perturbations at a crucial time, just when organs and systems are developing.”

— Martin J. Blaser

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“commented on the future of antibiotic drugs. Perhaps, Fleming mused, a time would come when anyone with real or perceived illness could get penicillin.…

— Anne E. Maczulak

I mean, you've got to protect human health beyond everything, and so we think eliminating shared-use antibiotics is the right way to go.

— Craig Wilson

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow…

— Andrew Weil