Download Antibiotics: How the bugs are fighting back Monday, TBA, 2011, 7:00 pm

CIHR’s Institute of Infection and Immunity and
the University of Manitoba Present Café Scientifique
Antibiotics:
How the bugs are fighting back
Monday, TBA, 2011, 7:00 pm
McNally Robinson, Grant Park
Join us on:
1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg
Seating is limited, RSVP to: [email protected] or 204.474.9020
Café Scientifiques
bring together experts
with non-researchers
(like you, me, neighbours, friends) in a
relaxed atmosphere
to talk about important
health questions.
Please join us for
a lively discussion,
debate, and
refreshments.
Have you ever taken antibiotics? For an ear infection, a sinus infection, or
maybe a bladder infection? At the time, it probably seemed like a minor
treatment for a minor illness. But not that long ago, physicians didn’t have
antibiotics in their arsenal, and “minor” illnesses claimed many lives.
Antibiotics represented a major advance in medicine and public health.
But they have become a victim of their own success. Overused and abused,
antibiotics are no longer as effective against the bacteria they are supposed
to defeat. The bacteria have adapted to the antibiotics’ tricks.
What are we doing wrong? How can we put antibiotics back on top?
Experts:
Mr. Brian Mark
Medical Microbiology & Biochemistry
and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba
Dr. Michael Mulvey
Microbiology, University of Manitoba, and
Chief, Antimicrobial Resistance & Nosocomial
Infections, National Microbiology Lab
Dr. George Zhanel
Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases,
University of Manitoba
Moderator:
Dr. Eric Brown
Professor and Chair, Biochemistry
& Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University