 | Abigail A. Salyers, Ph.D.
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign | | Resistance Gene Flow in the Human Colonic Microflora
2003 Senior Scholar Award in Global Infectious Disease
Antibiotics play a critical role in modern medicine. Not only do they cure debilitating and potentially fatal bacterial diseases such as pneumonia, they also make surgery and cancer chemotherapy much less risky than they would be if antibiotics were not available to prevent or cure the overwhelming bacterial infections that can be a side effect... (more) |
