How Serious is Antibiotic Resistance?

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How serious is antibiotic resistance, what causes it, and what are scientists doing to fight it? In this video I talk about some of the most promising recent developments to develop new antibiotics and fight bacteria.

The recent report in The Lancet about antibiotic resistance that I mention in the introduction is this:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673621027240

The WHO website about antibiotic resistance is hers:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antibiotic-resistance

The 2018 paper about the growth of antibiotic consumption is this:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1717295115

The paper about leaf-cutting ants that use antibiotics is here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66772-6

The study which used artificial intelligence to look for new antibiotics is this:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420301021

The 2019 paper about the successful treatment with genetically modified phages is here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0437-z

The 2019 paper about the new antibiotics which I mention at 11 mins 22 seconds is this:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0228153

And finally the two papers about the peptides are those:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7034994/
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00029

Many thanks to Jordi Busqu for helping with this video http://jordibusque.com/

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0:00 Intro
0:48 What are antibiotics and how do they work?
2:43 What causes antibiotic resistance and how bad is it?
6:50 What are scientists doing?
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