Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - What does it mean and why it matters

In this video explainer, Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope PhD, Pharmacist Lead for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Stewardship and HCAI at the UK Health Security Agency, explains what AMR means and why it matters.

What role do these microbes have on our planet? How do antimicrobials work? What are the origins of antimicrobial resistance and more importantly, what can you do to help reduce it?

Individual chapters:

00:00 What are microbes?
00:35 Antimicrobials
01:30 What is AMR?
03:02 How to reduce AMR

[ven]

Does the fact that she neglected to mention the bacteriophage as a solution to the problem of AMR discredit her? Or was this video sponsored by big-pharma?

[lairdkilbarchan]

Flemming "returned from his holiday in 1928 to find he'd inadvertently discovered penicillin". It great that such a short video found time to subtly undermine the achievement of a man who literally helped save countless lives.
Makes you wonder what all the fuss was about, maybe we should posthumously strip him of his knighthood for not doing the washing up.

[luiscrawford]

Well how about dealing with some of the issues which contribute to this issues. For example, feeding factory farmed animals more antibiotics than humans is a huge issue which facilitates the environment for anitbotic resistance to increase. Funnily enough this is something you don't touch on in this video which is why public health England is a bit of a let down.