- “A growing body of evidence implicates environmental organisms as reservoirs
of these resistance genes...We report a screen of a sample of the culturable
microbiome of Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico. In a region of the cave that has
been isolated for over 4 million years...some strains were resistant to 14
different commercially available antibiotics.” - “The prevalence of resistance, even in microbiomes isolated from human use of
antibiotics...supports a growing understanding that antibiotic resistance is
natural, ancient, and hard wired in the microbial pangenome.”
Binder, S., Levitt, A. M., Sacks, J. J. and Hughes, J. M. (1999). Emerging infectious
diseases: Public health issues for the 21st century. Science. 287. pg. 443-9.
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methoxyfluoroquinolone resistance among methicillin-susceptible staphylococcus
ep idermidis isolates recovered from patients with endophthalmitis. Journal of Clinical
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754617/
- “Fluoroquinolone resistance among staphylococci endophthalmitis isolates is a
major and increasing concern in opthamology.” - “To prevent the growing resistance to the newer fluoroquinolones among
staphylococci isolates from endophthalmitis cases, the extensive use of
gatifloxacin and moxifloxacin pre-and postoperatively for the prevention of
endophthalmitis should be reconsidered.”
Blaser, Martin. (2015). Missing microbes: How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our
modern plague. Picadore, Henry Holton Co., NY.
- “In 1850, one in four American babies died before his or her first birthday.
Lethal epidemics swept through crowded cities, as people were packed into dark,
dirty rooms with fetid air and no running water. Familiar scourges included
cholera, pneumonia, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, tuberculosis and
smallpox. Today, only six in every thousand infants in the United States are
expected to die before age one.” - “We are suffering from a mysterious array of what I call ‘modern plagues’:
obesity, childhood diabetes, asthma, hay fever, food allergies, esophageal reflux
and cancer, celiac, Crohn’s Disease, ulcer colitis, autism, and eczema.” - “These disorders suggest that our children are experiencing levels of immune
dysfunction never seen before, as well as conditions such as autism...