Episode 28 - Liselotte Diaz-Högberg - The Emptying Medicine Cabinet

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we catch up with Liselotte Diaz-Högberg, one of ECDC’s experts on antimicrobial resistance.

Liselotte explains why it’s so important that we are prudent with the use of antibiotics so that they remain effective.

She also tells us more about the latest data on deaths, resistance levels and antibiotic consumption.

You can find all of the most recent datasets, information and the communication campaign on the European Antibiotic Awareness Day pages here.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.6	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.2	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.1	Hello and welcome to ECDC on air.
0:16.8	I'm your host Nicholas and on the 18th of November we are holding the annual European antibiotic awareness day,
0:23.2	which puts a spotlight on issues concerning antibiotic resistance.
0:27.6	So today I have with me, Liselot Diaz Heugberg, who is one of ECDC's experts on antimicrobial resistance.
0:49.7	Thank you. on antimicrobial resistance. Liselot, it's good to have you here.
0:51.7	Thank you for inviting me.
0:52.9	Happy to be here.
0:54.4	Can you start off by explaining what antibiotic resistance is?
0:58.1	So maybe we could start with talking about what antibiotics are then.
1:03.4	So antibiotics are medicines used to treat infections caused by bacteria.
1:07.8	And they work by either killing the bacteria or making it difficult for them to multiply.
1:13.5	But sometimes the bacteria can have specific resistance mechanism, meaning that they will continue
1:19.4	to multiply and grow even in the presence of an antibiotic. And they can acquire this resistance
1:26.0	mechanism either through mutations or by sharing genetic material encoding for assistance with each other.
1:33.3	So the development of antibiotic resistance, it's a natural thing, it's evolution, but it is unfortunately accelerated by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics contributing to the selection of resistant bacteria.
1:49.5	And important to note as well is that poor infection prevention and control is also important
1:54.7	because that will allow the resistant bacteria to spread both in the community and in healthcare settings.
2:02.3	So how much of a problem would you then say that antibiotic resistance poses now?
2:06.7	Well, antibiotic resistance is considered to be one of the biggest threats to public health today,
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