All articles by Amit Thadani

War on drugs resistance

When a novel pandemic fills hospitals and stretches resources to breaking point, it’s hard to avoid overusing antibiotics – even if doing so might create even bigger problems for tomorrow. Allie Anderson speaks to Gemma Buckland-Merrett, the science and research lead of the drug-resistant infections priority programme at the Wellcome Trust, to find out how the pandemic has impacted antimicrobial resistance, and asks Jeremy Barr, senior lecturer at the school of biological sciences at Melbourne’s Monash University, whether the answer might be to turn viruses on the bacteria.