3 The problem of antibiotic resistance

In this section you will learn about antibiotic resistance and reflect on its implications for modern medicine and other aspects of our lives. In the previous section you learned about the importance of antibiotics today. In this section you will reflect on what a future without effective antibiotics would look like. You will also study figures and maps to get an understanding of the global scale of the problem of antibiotic resistance.

After this section you will:

• be able to define the term antibiotic resistance
• understand the scale of the problem of antibiotic resistance
• be able to reflect on a future without functional antibiotics.