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Do you have a source for this alleged temporal decay of efficacy?

If you are serious with your question, instead of just trying to jockey for hacker forum dominance, a very quick google search will answer your question. It is possible that I misunderstood your Q, and your tone, and if so, I apologize.

I searched google.com for "increased antibiotic resistance over time" and found two sources that seem pretty legit. One is the World Health Organization, the other is the US National Library of Medicine. Both articles appear to address the question I believe you raised.

[0] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/ [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378521/

Thank you! My key question was less around increasing numbers of antibiotic-resistant pathogens and more toward the claim that antibiotics released today produce resistant strains faster than ones produced say fifty years ago. The timeline in your second link should help me piece that together...

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