Antibiotic Use and Mis-use

Lesson 2

These videos describe how antibiotics in the environment lead to resistance.

 
 

Transmission of resistance in the environment

This video describes how both antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes can be spread in the environment.

 

Evolution of Resistance in the environment

In this video we discuss how resistance can evolve and be selected in the environment.

 

Selection of resistance in the environment

How does the environment select for antibiotic resistant bacteria?

 

Antibiotic resistance in antibiotic manufacturing

We describe the problem of resistance arising from environmental pollution associated with antibiotic manufacturing.

 

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