Can virologists combat antibiotic resistance? - a podcast by MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

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 principal investigator Dr Pablo Murcia, about their work on understanding the common respiratory viral infections in people and their epidemiology, that may mimic a bacterial infection. Better and more rapid diagnosis of a viral infection would prevent the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics in the clinic.

Edited intro/outro music credit: 'Take me higher' by 'Jahzzar'. freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/…Me_Higher_1626 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Edited voiceover music credit: “Mountain Bells” by Lobo Loco from the album “Moments” freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loc…Mountain_Bells

Image (Antibiotics!) from Samantha Celera on Flickr

Recorded by Josie Bellhouse and produced by Josie Bellhouse and Connor Bamford.

Further episodes of CVR podcast Contagious Thinking

Further podcasts by MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

Website of MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research