Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Kay Saunders and Rachel McMullan, with contributions from Ben Amos, Claire Gordon, Natalie Moyen and Hilary MacQueen.

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Images

Course image: Dr_Microbe/iStock/Getty Images Plus.

Figures 1–6, 8a, 9–13, 15–21, 23–25a and 26–28: The Open University.

Figure 7: Male, D. et al., Immunology, 7th edn, Elsevier.

Figure 8b: CNRI/Science Photo Library.

Figure 14: adapted (text correction) from Drakosam, ‘Mechanism of daptomycin action’, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Mechanism_of_Daptomycin_Action.jpg [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] . This file is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence, https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/ deed.en.

Figure 22: Nick Kim/CartoonStock.

Figure 25b: Dr L. Caro/Science Photo Library.

Figures 29–31: Jia et al. (2017) ‘CARD 2017: expansion and model-centric curation of the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database’ Nucleic Acids Research, 45, D566–73 [PMID 27789705]. © McMaster University.

Videos

Video 1: courtesy e-bug (https://www.e-bug.eu/).

Video 2: BBC, ‘Michael Mosley vs The Superbugs’, TX 17 May 2017.

Video 3: The Open University.

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