Acknowledgements

This free course was collaboratively written by Heike Schmitt, Roosmarijn Luiken, Hilary MacQueen and Dawn Harmon, and reviewed by Michael Macey, Will Gaze, Stanley Fenwick and Rachel McMullan.

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Images

Figure 1a: Christo Ras/Pixabay

Figure 1b: Robert Balog/Pixabay

Figure 1c: hartono subagio/Pixabay

Figure 1d: Peter H/Pixabay

Figure 2: BrianAJackson/Getty

Figure 3: eufic

Figure 5a: Pete/Pixabay

Figure 5b: Vladi Alon/Alamy

Figure 6: Michal Jarmoluk/Pixabay

Figure 7: Pixabay

Figure 8: Yogendra Singh/Pixabay

Figure 9a: taken from Ott et al. (2021)

Figure 10: taken from Remschmidt, C., Schröder, C., Behnke, M., Gastmeier, P., Geffers, C. and Kramer, T. (2018) ‘Continuous increase of vancomycin resistance in enterococci causing nosocomial infections in Germany – 10 years of surveillance’, Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 7; DOI 10.1186/s13756-018-0353-x

Figure 11: Hans Newman/microbiologyinpictures.com

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