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Superbugs, for dummies
Updated On: 17 December, 2019 08:37 AM IST | Mumbai | Dalreen Ramos
Through an India-UK collaboration, a two-month-long exhibition comes to Mumbai tomorrow to create awareness about antibiotic resistance.
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The 3D art installation depicting the evolution of antibiotics
One sometimes find what one is not looking for," said Alexander Fleming, after he discovered penicillin in 1928, a group of antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections. Fleming's discovery changed the course of medicine forever. But he also left us with a warning: "[If] The dose is too small, the microbes will not be able to be killed, and there is a danger that it will be educated to resist Penicillin." It is this statement, and the rise of cases related to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that lays the ground of Superbugs: The End of Antibiotics? which is, a travelling exhibition that comes to Mumbai's Nehru Science Centre (NSC) this week, after an opening at the National Science Centre in New Delhi.
For this show, India will join hands with the UK as it is being organised by the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Science Museum Group, Wellcome and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and is supported by the British Council. It explores the challenges of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antibacterial resistance (ABR) that gives rise to the "superbug" through scientific research and personal stories via photography, audio and video. There is also a 3D art installation that depicts the evolution of antibiotics.
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