Unless action is taken, by the year 2050 approximately ten million deaths per year will be attributable to antimicrobial resistance. 

In this episode of the podcast, hosted by Jonathan McCrea, Professor Cormican and Professor Morris discuss the global problem of antimicrobial resistance and how dependence on antibiotics has meant they don't work as well as they use to because bacteria have changed, rendering the medications ineffective.

Professor Martin Cormican is a Consultant Microbiologist at Galway University Hospital, Professor of Bacteriology at NUI Galway and the national lead for Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance in Ireland and clinical lead for COVID-19 vaccination roll out in Ireland. 

Professor Dearbhaile Morris is Professor of Antimicrobial Resistance and One Health at NUI Galway and head  of the Discipline of Bacteriology at the School of Medicine at NUI Galway. She is Director of the Antimicrobial Rseistance and Microbial Ecology Group and Director of the Ryan Institute for One Health at NUI Galway. 

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