• Question: what do you do once you've treated different different kinds of bugs, do they get made into new antibiotics?

    Asked by Ellie Y to Thomas, Sanjib, Avril, Abid on 14 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Thomas Booth

      Thomas Booth answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      Sometimes!

      Although this depends on the drug. It might be that the same thing that kills the bug is also very harmful for humans which, although certainly an antibiotic would not make a very good medicine!

    • Photo: Avril Tucker

      Avril Tucker answered on 19 Jun 2017:

      We will definitely need new antibiotics to treat multi-drug resistant infections if they are resistant to all of the antibiotics we currently have.

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