Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Rachel McMullan and Sarah Palmer. It was first published in October 2018.
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Images
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Figure 2: Docwarhol https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/ deed.en https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Streptomyces_griseus_color_enhanced_scanning_electron_micrograph..jpg
Figure 3: adapted from bas scheme 8 in this paper Wright, P. M., Seiple, I. B., and Myers, A. G. (2014). The Evolving Role of Chemical Synthesis in Antibacterial Drug
Figure 4: adapted from http://www.pewtrusts.org/ en/ research-and-analysis/ reports/ 2016/ 05/ a-scientific-roadmap-for-antibiotic-discovery © Pew Charitable Trust
Figure 6: http://www.pewtrusts.org/ en/ research-and-analysis/ reports/ 2016/ 05/ a-scientific-roadmap-for-antibiotic-discovery © Pew Charitable Trust
Figure 7: adapted from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pmc/ articles/ PMC4536949/
Figure 8: adapted from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pmc/ articles/ PMC4536949/
Figure 9: taken from: PharmaFactz; Medicinal Chemistry of Beta-Lactam Antibiotics; © PharmaFactz 2018
Audio-visual
Video 2: Penicillin rediscovered, clip from Britains Greatest Invention (broadcast on BBC) courtesy Thoroughly Modern Media
Video 3: Mass production of penicillin, Pain, Pus and Poison, Episode 2, © BBC.
Video 4: South American leafcutter ants, clip from BBC Britains Greatest Invention (2017) courtesy of Thoroughly Modern Media
Audio 1: Cephalosporins-Chemistry in its element, Chemistry World; https://www.chemistryworld.com.
Audio 2 Inside Science, Radio 4, International Year of Soil, broadcast 15/1/2015. © BBC
Text
Article 1: Brute force can overcome antibiotic resistance (UCL 2017), courtesy of Joseph Ndieyira; UCL
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