By Marie Rosenthal
New Orleans—Clinicians managing patients at risk for opportunistic infections got a scare from CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, who spoke recently at IDWeek about the surge in antibiotic resistance.
Rates of resistance are now so high that it could set back modern medicine, Dr. Frieden noted.
“Truly, we face a scary situation,” he said. “Antibiotic resistance, as you know, risks turning back the clock. It risks going from pre-antibiotic to antibiotic