The world is starting to run out of antibiotics, but researchers are working to keep that from happening.
Dr. Mohammed Saleem, with Purdue University, calls this is a “critical situation.” Saleem and his team are conducting research with more than 4,000 approved drugs to see how many may be able to treat antibiotic-resistant infections.
The World Health Organization predicts that death rates from drug-resistant infections will rise from 700,000 per year to 10 million worldwide by 2050. Since antimicrobial resistance is becoming a global health emergency, he tells ag web dot com that he hopes his academic study will provide some answers.
