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Understanding antibiotic resistance
Understanding antibiotic resistance

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This free course was written by Rachel McMullan and Sarah Palmer. It was first published in October 2018.

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Figure 6 from Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) cdde.org

Figure 9: © ReAct group 2015

Figure 10 Global antimicrobial resistance surveillance system (GLASS) report: early implementation 2016-2017. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Figure 11 Global antimicrobial resistance surveillance system (GLASS) report: early implementation 2016-2017. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Figure 12: from Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Global surveillance and a call for international collaborative action; © 2017 World Health Organization. Licensee Public Library of Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/

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Video 2: © European Centre for Disease Control https://ecdc.europa.eu/

Videos 3 and 4: Bang Goes the Theory, Series 7, Bugs © BBC 2013

Video 5: Drug-resistant gonorrhoea: an urgent public health issue.Centers for disease control and prevention CDC

Text

Article 1: Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea on the rise, new drugs needed, courtesy World Health Organisation http://www.who.int/

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