Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance

Kevin R Foster; Hajo Grundmann

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030029

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Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance

Kevin R Foster ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: krfoster@rice.edu

Affiliation Kevin R. Foster and Hajo Grundmann wrote this article while at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin, Germany. Kevin R. Foster is now at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Hajo Grundmann is also at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, and the Department of Microbiology, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Hajo Grundmann

Affiliation Kevin R. Foster and Hajo Grundmann wrote this article while at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin, Germany. Kevin R. Foster is now at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Hajo Grundmann is also at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, and the Department of Microbiology, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance

Kevin R Foster,
Hajo Grundmann

Published: January 10, 2006
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030029

About the Authors

Kevin R Foster

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: krfoster@rice.edu

Affiliation Kevin R. Foster and Hajo Grundmann wrote this article while at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin, Germany. Kevin R. Foster is now at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Hajo Grundmann is also at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, and the Department of Microbiology, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Hajo Grundmann

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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