Dear. President Obama,
Over the last few decades antibiotic resistance has become a major concern. The overuse of antibiotics have given rise to resistant bacteria with some pathogens exhibiting multi-drug resistances that are impossible to treat. Simultaneously, a lack of potential profit, and arduous clinical trials, have de-incentivised pharmaceutical companies from creating new antibiotics. These factors have contributed towards the dwindling of effective antibiotics. In order to maintain treatments of bacterial infections, current antibiotics must be preserved.
inhibitors. B-lactam antibiotics, like penicillin, are very effective and widely used. However, some bacteria have enzymes, called beta-lactamases, which break the B-lactam ring these antibiotics need to kill bacteria. There