Lecture explores war between superbugs and drugs
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Biochemist Gerry Wright and his lab team have been waging a war against superbugs, making significant discoveries about those nasty bacteria that have become so common that the term “superbug” has earned a new entry just this year in the Oxford Dictionary of English as “a bacterium that has become resistant to antibiotics”.
Superbugs are closing hospital wards, travelling across international borders with the increase in “medical tourism”, coming home with some of our military and causing severe illness and the deaths of hundreds of Canadians every year.
Wright, a Canada Research hair in Antibiotic Biochemistry and the director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research(IIDR) is going to take his audience to the frontlines of the war that the infectious disease community has been waging against antibiotic resistant bacteria. Wright's lecture Antibiotics and Resistance: Is it really that bad?will present the scope and impact of antibiotic resistance and the strategies that will contribute to solutions to the problem.
This talk is free and all are welcome. The lecture will take place Thursday, October 28 in The Hamilton Spectator Auditorium, 44 Frid Street in Hamilton. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the lecture begins at 7:00 p.m. To register your seat e-mail sciencecity@mcmaster.ca or voice mail 905-525-9140 extension 24934.
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