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Acknowledgements

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

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Introduction Images

Course Image: © smartboy10/Getty Images.

Week 1

Figures

Figure 1 © Heiti Paves in WikiMedia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Figure 2a © Eye of Science/Science Photo Library

Figure 2b © Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library

Figure 2c © NIAID

Figure 2d © NIAID

Figure 2e © David Dorward/NIAID

Figure 2f © NIAID

Figure 4 from Gell=band, H, et al (2015) The State of the Worlds Antibiotics 2015 https://www.cddep.org/publications/state_worlds_antibiotics_2015/

Figure 5 from Gell=band, H, et al (2015) The State of the Worlds Antibiotics 2015 https://www.cddep.org/publications/state_worlds_antibiotics_2015/

Audio-visual

Video 2 BBC Learning Zone © BBC

Video 4 What is a superbug?, Pain, Pus and Poison, episode 2 © BBC

Video 5 A very serious issue, Sally Davis talking in 2013 © BBC

Audio 1 Scientists’ perspective on the antibiotic resistance threat, Inside Science, BBC Radio 4 Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance (last broadcast 9 June 2016) © BBC

Text

Article 1: The History of Germ Theory, Big Picture by the Educational and Editorial Teams at Wellcome Trust

Article 2: extract from Bacteria that resist 'last antibiotic' found in UK, James Gallagher Health Editor, BBC News website 21.12.2015, © BBC

Week 2

Audio-visual

Video 1 In pursuit of ‘magic bullets; the seminal work of Paul Ehrlich, Pain, Pus and Poison (2013) © BBC

Video 2 How do antibiotics work?, courtesy e-bug http://www.e-bug.eu/

Video 3 Penicillin and beyond, Pain, Pus and Poison © BBC

Week 3

Text

Article 1: © BBC News

Images

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Figure 6: adapted from:Pfizer ATLAS https://atlas-surveillance.com/

Figure 7: adapted from BSAC Data © The Open University

Week 4

Images

Figure 4 © Nick Kim, CartoonStock

Figure 7 © Dr L Caro/Science Photo Library

Figure 13: http://journals.plos.org/ plosone/ article?id=10.1371/ journal.pone.0011202 Copyright: © 2010 Smet et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/

Figure 14: AS Rose and PW Hildebrand. NGL Viewer: a web application for molecular visualization. Nucl Acids Res (1 July 2015) 43 (W1): W576-W579 first published online April 29, 2015. doi:10.1093/nar/gkv402 http://www.rcsb.org/ pdb/ ngl/ ngl.do?pdbid=1YLJ&bionumbe

Audio-visual

Video 1: An introduction to the acquisition and spread of antibiotic resistance, Bacteria Vs Antibiotics by Kevin Wu https://ed.ted.com/ on/ x5MqTCry https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 4.0/ deed.en

Video 3: HHMI

Week 5

Images

Figure 2 Review on antimicrobial resistance, https://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/HI%26S%20Infographic_1_v4%20white.jpg https://creatiand 5vecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 3 Review on antimicrobial resistance, https://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/HI%26S%20Infographic_1_v4%20white.jpg https://creatiand 5vecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 4 Review on antimicrobial resistance, https://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/HI%26S%20Infographic_1_v4%20white.jpg https://creatiand 5vecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 5 Review on antimicrobial resistance, https://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/HI%26S%20Infographic_1_v4%20white.jpg https://creatiand 5vecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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/

Audio-visual

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: The world is running out of antibiotics, courtesy World Health Organisation http://www.who.int/

Week 6

Images

Figure 1: AJC1 in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 2.0/

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

Week 7

Images

Figures 1 and 2: from ‘Review on Antimicrobial Resistance.’ https://amr-review.org/ sites/ default/ files/ HI%26S%20Infographic_1_v4%20white.jpghttps://creatiand 5vecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 3: Ignaz Semmelweis / Etching by Dob; akg-images

Figure 6: Unicef; https://www.unicef.org.uk

Figure 7: Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Figure 8: Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Figure 9: ‘Tackling drug-resistant infections globally: Final report and recommendations’; HM Government and Wellcome Trust; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/

Figure10: https://amr-review.org/infographics.html https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/

Figure 11: Safely Reduce Antiobiotic Exposure; BRAHMS Procalcitonin (PCT): ThermoFisher Scientific

Figure 12: By J3D3 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Figure 13: taken from Journal of Clinical Microbiology; Rapid Detection of Extended-Spectrum-ß-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Patrice Nordmann, Laurent Dortet and Laurent Poirel

Figure 14: Nesta; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Audio-visual

Video 1: Ten steps to reducing antimicrobial resistance.The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry; 10 Steps to Reducing AMR - The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance

Video 5: Bang Goes the Theory, Series 7, broadcast 11 March 2013, © BBC

Week 8

Images

Figure 1: from ‘Review on Antimicrobial Resistance.’ https://amr-review.org/ sites/ default/ files/ HI%26S%20Infographic_1_v4%20white.jpghttps://creatiand 5vecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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/

Figure 7: Science Photo Library/UIG

Figure 8: Estevez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Bellovibrio-cycle.svg

Figure 9: courtesy Rachel McMullan

Figure 10: stevepb/Pixabay.com; https://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/ zero/ 1.0/ deed.en

Figure 11: Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library

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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