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Origins

Exploring how resistance emerges, including through antibiotic misuse, environmental selection, and resistance mechanisms.

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Antibiotic consumption and misuse

Understanding how use of antimicrobials in hospitals, community care and in agriculture impact emergence of resistance

Environmental selection

Investigating environmental drivers of drug resistance

E coli bacteria

Resistance to host defences

Bacteria face the twin threats of antibiotics & the host immune system. Resistance to one sometimes confers resistance to the other.

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Mutations and other genetic changes

Understanding the genetic changes that confer resistance to antibiotics and their molecular and clinical impact

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