• Question: have you descovered a new drug instead of antibiotics as th bacteria have got used to it???

    Asked by mantyandjack97 to Katherine on 14 Jun 2011.
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      Katherine Jones answered on 14 Jun 2011:


      Hi, no I have never worked with antibiotics in my job. It is a very good question though – like you say, bacteria are getting used to (we call it ‘resistant’ to) a lot of different antibiotics which means they don’t work as well. Some people in my company work on antibiotics, but they are all in America. They are trying to find new clever ways of killing the bacteria, so that the bacteria are not used to the new antibiotics.

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