Microbial Drug Resistance

The Rise of the Superbugs: Understanding and Combating Drug Resistance
Drug resistance is a growing global health crisis. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites are evolving to withstand the drugs designed to kill them, making infections harder-and sometimes impossible-to treat. This video explores the alarming rise of drug-resistant "superbugs" and what we can do to combat this threat.
Yearly about 1 million people die from tuberculosis, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis is now the second greatest killer of mankind by a single infectious agent, surpassed only by HIV/AIDS. A further 7.3 million have been diagnosed with the active form of the disease, and a third of the world’s population, now in excess of 7 billion, has been estimated to have a latent TB infection, and to be at risk of progressing to the active disease. Today, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, and totally resistant tuberculosis add to the difficulties of treating the disease. In 2015, multidrug-resistant TB strains of M. tuberculosis caused an estimated 480,000 new cases of TB and 250,000 deaths. The lecture will discuss approaches to dealing with this growing threat to mankind.
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