Antibiotics: handle with care
Science on the Menu: A Food Safety Podcast by EFSA
European Food Safety Authority
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🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Antibiotics are nowadays very important. They protect human and animals from a wide range of infections, but this precious resource is to be used with care. A growing number of bacteria are able to survive or multiply in the presence of antibiotics, some of them widely used to treat common diseases that, only one century ago, could be lethal. Join us for this episode of Science on the Menu, in which our expert Ernesto Liebana discusses the challenge that Antimicrobial Resistance represents and what can be done against it.
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| 0:00.0 | Science on the menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Science on the Menu, the podcast series by EFSA, the European |
| 0:27.8 | Food Safety Authority. My name is James Ramsey, I'm the head of communications at EFSA, |
| 0:33.0 | and today we're going to be talking about a really important public health issue and that is antimicrobial resistance. |
| 0:40.4 | And to talk us through this topic today, we're very happy to be joined by an expert at EFSA, |
| 0:46.7 | a scientist at EFSA, a vet who specializes in microbiology. |
| 0:51.0 | Ernesto Liebana, a very warm welcome, Enesto. How are you today? |
| 0:56.0 | Hello, James. I'm very well. Thank you. |
| 0:58.0 | What we'd like to do with you today, Anesto, is for you to share with us your expertise, |
| 1:05.0 | your understanding the work you're doing on antich microbial resistance. |
| 1:09.0 | So I've got a series of questions for you, |
| 1:11.4 | but what I'd like to do at the start, |
| 1:12.9 | just really to put the whole thing into perspective, |
| 1:16.9 | is to talk a little bit about what we mean by antimicrobial resistance, |
| 1:22.5 | and maybe the best place to start there |
| 1:24.4 | is by actually just talking about what antibiotics are. |
| 1:27.4 | So can you start |
| 1:28.9 | us off with an answer to that question? Sure, yes, with pleasure. So the first thing to say |
| 1:35.3 | is that when we talk about antimicrobials, we're not only covering antibiotics, which are, I think, |
| 1:40.7 | the substances we will talk about today. So antimicrobials in general are substances we use to treat infectious diseases, |
| 1:48.0 | let it be viral diseases, bacterial diseases or parasitic diseases. |
| 1:53.0 | But what is the most concerning public health issue right now is the problem of resistance |
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