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PR Newswire October 19, 2009.

Extrapolating the 2009 Roberts study [CID vol. 49 no. 8 October 15, 2009 1175-1184.) see below] nation-wide, the authors concluded antibiotic-resistant infections cost the U.S. health care system in excess of $20 billion annually as well as more than $35 billion in societal costs and more than 8 million additional days spent in the hospital.