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antimicrobial-resistance
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+title: Antimicrobial resistance
+kind: problem
+status: open
+year: 1945
+statement: Can new antibiotics and strategies outpace the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria?
+space: infectious-disease
+---
+Resistant infections were directly responsible for over a million deaths in 2019. Few new antibiotic classes have been discovered since the 1980s, largely because they earn too little to justify development. Machine-learning screens have found candidates such as halicin and abaucin, and pull incentives such as subscription payments are being tried to fix the economics.
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Antimicrobial resistance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance)
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+[[Space:infectious-disease|Infectious disease]] · [[Continent:medicine|Medicine]]
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Resistant infections were directly responsible for over a million deaths in 2019. Few new antibiotic classes have been discovered since the 1980s, largely because they earn too little to justify development. Machine-learning screens have found candidates such as halicin and abaucin, and pull incentives such as subscription payments are being tried to fix the economics.