Opinion: New diagnostic tools are essential in the battle against antibiotic resistance
by Eric Stern
Oct 24, 2019
3 minutes
A century ago, a severe bacterial infection was often a death sentence. With the advent of penicillin and the antibiotics that followed, such infections became eminently manageable, even routine. Today, though, with the rise of antimicrobial resistance, we are perilously close to returning to where we were 100 years ago.
I have a unique and uncomfortable perspective on the looming crisis of antimicrobial resistance. I am the chief technology officer SeLux Diagnostics, a startup focused on the rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases. And
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