The rise of Superbugs and Antimicrobial Resistance | Dr Akhil Bansal

Each year, Antimicrobial Resistance is associated with thousands of deaths in Australia and nearly 5 million deaths globally.
We sat down with St Vincent's Dr Akhil Bansal, a global health researcher on superbugs, to discuss.
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00:00 - What are superbugs?
00:33 - What is anti-microbial resistance?
1:08 - Horizontal gene transfer
1:25 - Examples of superbugs
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