Cvr Podcast Contagious Thinking

Can virologists combat antibiotic resistance?

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Find out what CVR virologists are doing to help fight bacterial antibiotic resistance in the clinic, in this latest episode of the Contagious Thinking podcast brought to you by the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR). Or you can read about this story on our blog here: http://cvr.academicblogs.co.uk/can-virologists-combat-antibiotic-resistance/ If you listened to this episode of Contagious Thinking, and have a couple of minutes to spare, please fill in this questionnaire about the podcast; https://goo.gl/forms/gWqwGLq5pZjUJcNb2 Here, Josie - our undergraduate honours student - asks, "What can virologists do to combat antibiotic resistance?". To answer this, she talks with Dr Neil Ritchie, an infectious diseases clinician in Glasgow, about the looming, real-world problem that individuals face when the bacterial infections they have are not able to be treated easily with routine antibiotics. Building on this, Josie then speaks with CVR scientists Dr Sema Nickbaksh, a postdoc, and princ