IDSA’s Faces of Antimicrobial Resistance (FAOR) report

Dear All:

This one appears to have been released on 7 Mar but it just crossed my desk today. In brief, IDSA has assembled 13 patient stories into a well-written and illustrated .pdf. The centerpiece of the paper is this graphical history of AMR shown below.  Well done to IDSA for pulling these stories together in an accessible format!

John H. Rex, MD | Chief Medical Officer, F2G Ltd. | Chief Strategy Officer, CARB-X | Expert-in-Residence, Wellcome Trust. Follow me on Twitter: @JohnRex_NewAbx

The .pdf itself: http://www.idsociety.org/uploadedFiles/IDSA/FOAR/FOAR%20Report%201-up%20final.pdf
IDSA resource page: http://www.idsociety.org/Topic_Antimicrobial_Resistance/

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