Antibiotic Resistance Tutorial

BMedSci
2018
• This tutorial aims to re-enforce and support some
of the content from the lectures and practicals
regarding antibiotic resistance

• The tutorial will revolve around a discussion of

two commentaries on recent publications.

• Learning outcomes:
– To be aware of the scale and global nature of
the antibiotic resistance problem, and how
One Health Approach can help address this
– To be aware of the different uses of
antibiotics, and how antibiotics have been/can
be discovered
– To have an understanding of how antibiotic
exposure can result in antibiotic resistance
– To be aware of how genomics can be used to
characterise antibiotic resistance, and some of
the pros and cons associated with this
Please read the FULL ARTICLE which can be found at:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-018-0208-5.pdf
and on Canvas
Please read the Brief report below. You do NOT have
to read the “original article,” only what is written on
this page.