Why Canada hasn’t been getting the new antibiotics we need to fight drug-resistant ‘superbugs’

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Why Canada hasn’t been getting the new antibiotics we need to fight drug-resistant ‘superbugs’

More than one-quarter of infections in Canada fail to clear up when people are treated with standard antibiotics. This failure occurs because of a phenomenon called antimicrobial resistance (also called AMR), where bacteria and other microbes develop the ability to resist the effects of drugs designed to kill them.

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