Acknowledgements

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

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Figure 3: Janice Carr (2005) https://phil.cdc.gov/ Details.aspx?pid=7483

Figure 5: Activity 4; courtesy Rachel McMullan

Figure 6: Activity 4; adapted from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pmc/ articles/ PMC3563964/ figure/ F3/

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Figure 9: courtesy Rachel McMullan

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Audio-visual

Video 1: How vaccines help to beat superbugs; Vaccines Today

Video 2; Predation of Shigella by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus inside a zebrafish larva (Willis et al., 2016). Predation of GFP - Shigella by mCherry

Audio 1: Interview with Martha Clokie on phage therapy, Inside Science, Radio 4, © BBC 2016

Audio 2: Interview with Liz Sockett about research with Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, Inside Science; Radio 4 © BBC 2016

Audio 3: Interview with Liz Sockett about research with Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, Inside Science; Radio 4 © BBC 2016

Text

Article 1: courtesy © New Scientist Ltd (2015) https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27263-anglo-saxon-remedy-kills-hospital-superbug-mrsa/

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