Abutting I-44 and wedged between Compton and McKinley Heights, the Fox Park neighborhood of St. Louis is a small community with a culture of its own. A painted fleur de lis pattern dances across the asphalt, and green fire hydrants (painted with a fox, of course) stand sentry along the sidewalks. It is October, and…
One of the major issues facing modern medicine is the rising prevalence of multidrug resistant bacteria. Most of the current strategies for dealing with this problem are preventative: minimizing the number of people infected, stopping the spread of the resistant pathogens, tracking them when they do crop up, and using antibiotics more responsibly [1]. For…