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1. What doesn’t kill them makes
them stronger

6. Discovers penicillin in
1928

12. Penicillin-The Magic
Bullet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zDqBuQ94Q

16. • Antibiotics create selection pressure

18. • Horizontal gene transfer
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpag
e&v=eRvfhljxA4s

19. • Bacteria have the ability to acquire genes from other
bacterium without being its offspring.

20. • Many of the most widely used antimicrobial drugs are already
ineffective
• Pharmaceutical companies cannot create new drugs fast
enough to treat drug resistant bacteria
• Reduce inappropriate prescription of antibiotics
• Increase public awareness that many diseases cannot be cured with
antibiotics
• Reduce use of agricultural antibiotics
• Increase the number of patients who finish their courses of
antibiotics
• Restrict the use of new antibiotics
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=
UZatOIWlf3Y