Our Pathogens Are Not Standing Still and Neither Can We

In 1 or 2 generations, we have gone from a world in which there were no cures for most infections to a declaration that the war against infectious disease was won. That period of ephemeral confidence was followed by the inexorable march toward increasingly resistant pathogens that quickly learned to evade each new advance and our own race, sometimes successful, sometimes faltering, to produce new antimicrobials and vaccines.
Source: Clinics in Laboratory Medicine - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research