Martin J. Blaser
Author of Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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- Blaser, Martin J.
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- Dr. Blaser is Past President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and Founder of the Foundation for Bacteriology and the Virtual Museum of Bacteria and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. He currently chairs the Advisory Board for Clinical Research at the NIH. He is a member of the editorial boards of Cell Host and Microbe, mBio, Helicobacter, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Cancer Prevention Research, Virulence, and Microbiome.
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The strongest arguments are against early-childhood (especially age 0-2) use of antibiotics, due to great potential for long-term harm, and against routine agricultural use (due to environmental and other harm and limited benefit other than somewhat improved food yields). This seems like a well reasoned course of action, along with studying the use of antibiotics to treat infections and development of newer, more narrow spectrum antibiotics for use.… (more)