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1. Extending the Cure

   Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance

   By Ramanan Laxminarayan, Anup Malani, David Howard, David L. Smith

   Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sustaining a supply of effective and affordable antibiotics cannot be without changes to the incentives facing patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers,...

   Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge
2. Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides

   An Economic Approach

   Edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan

   The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century. Though the potential consequences of increased antibiotic and pesticide resistance are far reaching,...

   Published December 25th 2002 by Routledge