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AMR unleashed: the silent pandemic

6 May 2025

“Resistance is when an antibiotic that you rely on to treat a bacteria doesn’t do its job anymore,” said Professor Laura Shallcross (UCL Institute of Health Informatics), highlighting the risk that no new types of antibiotics pose to public health.

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