ly 31--Dr. James Johnson of the Minneapolis VA Medical Center has bad news for people with urinary tract infections: There's a growing chance that antibiotics might be useless in treating them before long.
Experts have been warning for years that many germs are becoming drug-resistant, thanks to overuse of antibiotics in people and animals. Now, in a study coming out Sunday, Johnson reports a growing number of E. coli infections are immune to the most commonly used antibiotics.
That's a big concern, he said, because it may not be long before the germ can outwit every antibiotic in the medical arsenal.
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