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Article: ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA WORRIES DOCTORS
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- October 16, 1994
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Antibiotic resistance - (Source: CDC, JAMA (AP)
THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.
The woman's prognosis was grim. She had undergone extensive surgery for blocked arteries, and had developed an inexorable infection in a blood vessel deep in her abdomen.
Not a single antibiotic in the nation's arsenal, not even the big gun, vancomycin, could destroy the bacteria ravaging her.
So Dr. Jim Rahal, head of the infectious disease center at the New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens, went to the Food and Drug Administration with a plea: He needed the agency's permission to try an antibiotic that had never been used or even tested in the United States. ...