抗“耐抗生素”的战争：无效的药物促使科学家探索替换治疗.pdf

INTERNATIONAL  BUSINESS  TIMES   Combating Antibiotic Resistance: Ineffective Drugs Push Scientists To Explore Alternative Medications 抗“耐抗生素” 的战争：无效的药物促使科学家探索替换治疗 2015 年2 月20 日 By Elizabeth Whitman @elizabethwhitty e.whitman@ on February 20 2015 3:56 PM EST   As  antibiotic  resistance  becomes  a  growing  threat  around  the  world,  scientists  are  searching  for   new  ways  to  kill,  but  they  say  alternatives  to  antibiotics  wont  be  ready  for  use  for  years.  Above,  a   Georgian  doctor  held  the  bacterium  staphylococcus  at  the  laboratory  of  the  Eliava  Institute  of   Bacteriophage,  Microbiology  and  Virology  in  Tbilisi,  Georgia,  in  2005.  Vano  Shlamov/AFP/Getty   Images.  耐抗生素已在形成全世界的激增威胁，科学家正在研究能杀死病原体的新途径，但他 们说抗生素的替代还需要很多年才能就绪。上图：乔治亚第比利斯的埃利阿瓦噬菌体、 微生 物学和分子病毒学研究所，一位乔治亚医生手上的葡萄球菌 （2005 年）。 They were once the darlings of modern medicine. With them, surgery could be clean and safe, and infections of all kinds treated quickly and relatively cheaply. But as two deaths at a University of California, Los Angeles hospital linked this week to a highly resistant infection show, antibiotics are no longer as effective as they used to be. While the California cases and similar ones elsewhere renew public interest in antibiotic resistance, scientists are trying to create ways to prepare for the day when antibiotics no longer work. 它们曾经是现代医学的宠儿。有了它们，手术可以进行得 干净和安全，各种感染都相对低成本地被迅速医治。但是本周在加州大学洛杉矶分校医院的 两例死亡所显示的高度耐药感染，是抗生素不再像它们以前那样有效了。而这两个加州案例   1