Open AccessEngaging the public with antibiotic resistance
Author(s) -
Rachel Burnett
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the biochemist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1740-1194
pISSN - 0954-982X
DOI - 10.1042/bio03703042
Subject(s) - penicillin , antibiotic resistance , resistance (ecology) , antibiotics , history , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , ecology
“The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily under dose himself and by exposing his microbes to nonlethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.” (Alexander Fleming, Nobel Prize speech 1945).
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