Antibiotic-Resistant UTIs Are Common, and Other Infections May Soon Be Resistant, Too

Scientific American — February 1, 2023. “People can also be exposed by eating animals, says Ramanan Laxminarayan, an epidemiologist and chair of the WHO’s Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing treatments for drug-resistant infections. He explains that they can get a drug-resistant strain of E. coli from eating improperly cooked meat. This bacterium can cause an intestinal disease, potentially leading to a drug-resistant UTI.”