Typhoid lurks in India’s water. Why are antibiotics failing to stop it?

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Durga Sreenivasan

Complexities in diagnosis and treatment make the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics unavoidable. This inevitably leads to resistance against the same life-saving drugs

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Durga Sreenivasan

Durga is a writer and researcher passionate about sustainable solutions, conservation, and human-wildlife conflict.

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