Hospital Superbugs - Aston University

Since the discovery of antibiotics in 1929 and their development for treatment of infection, resistance has been a problem. The more antibiotics are used, the more resistance is encouraged. Hospitals now face major problems controlling the spread of resistant bacteria.

In his inaugural lecture at Aston University, Professor Peter Lambert discusses the most notorious hospital superbugs, MRSA and Clostridium difficile. What can be done to control them? Can these bugs spread to the community? Are they there already? Finally are there more "superbugs" waiting to threaten our health?

Watch the entire video at http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/news/events/lecturevideos.jsp

Aston hosts many public lectures, which are free and open to all. To find out what's coming up, visit:

http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/news/events/index.jsp

Category:

Education

Tags:

• mrsa
• superbugs
• hospital
• antibiotics
• health
• aston
• university
• birmingham

[ipratsides]

engaging video clip, suitable to get school students thinking about the subject. Great starter stimulus

[lub783]

hes a dude!

[loverboyjr74]

Very interesting topic to watch especially as its always in the news at the moment..