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In the days when Merril and Carlton were reading about antibiotic resistance, a physician in Baltimore, Maryland was experiencing it as a daily reality. J. Glenn Morris, then head of infectious diseases at the University of Maryland’s Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, was one of the first doctors in the country to recognize the emergence of VRE in the late 1980s. Morris, now director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida, Gainesville, was then splitting his time between lecturing at the University of Maryland’s medical school, where he was a professor of epidemiology, and making hospital rounds. He began noticing that a growing number of his most seriously ill patients were coming down with infections that didn’t respond to medication. At first, Morris wasn’t surprised.
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Kuchment, A. (2012). The Startups. In: The Forgotten Cure. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0251-0_8
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