Ep. 84 The Dangers of Antibiotic Resistance

Last episode we discussed the history of antibiotics and alluded to RESISTANCE, the ability of bacteria to adapt to antibiotics to the point where the drugs aren't effective anymore. This is a huge, global problem, one that requires changes in policy and individual behavior, but all that other stuff is for some other time -- we're going to talk about the science of antibiotic resistance and what sorts of things scientists are cooking up to try to fight back!

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References:

https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/solutions-initiative/index.html

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antibiotic-resistance

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6924a2.htm?s_cid=mm6924a2_w

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/5/e2016886118

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02928/full

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(18)30162-4.pdf

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6474/200

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18843302/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6380099/