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**This is bonus content for episode 4. If you haven’t already, please listen to episode 4 before moving ahead with this one**
Antibiotic resistance is a problem of many countries and many bugs. So we hear from someone who has a bird’s eye view of this issue. Dr. Hanan Balkhy of the World Health Organisation.
Imagined Tomorrow is created and hosted by Shreya Dasgupta. The episode was co-edited by Abhishek Madan. Intro and outro music is by Abhijit Shylanath. Get in touch via Twitter, or email imagined.tomorrow@gmail.com.
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Dr. Hanan Balkhy, a professor of pediatric infection diseases and Assistant Director-General for Antimicrobial Resistance at the World Health Organization
Episode music:
Interlude music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi on Pixabay.
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Klebsiella pneumoniae Bacteria Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. Under CC BY-NC 2.0 license.
For further reading:
Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Available on Amazon)
Scoping Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in India. Read here.
Science journalist Priyanka Pulla has written some excellent stories on antimicrobial resistance:
· The superbugs of Hyderabad. Read here.
· Living in a world of emerging microbial resistance. Read here.
· India’s Hospitals Have an Infection Problem. Could Accreditation Be the Way to Go? Read here.
· The growing peril of drug-resistant superbugs. Read here.
· Explainer: Why Is Multi-Drug Resistance a Problem? Read here.
· How India got blindsided by a deadly mucormycosis outbreak. Read here.
WHO’s Aware tool
WHO’s priority bacteria list.