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Mar 2025
32m 22s

AMR unleashed: the silent pandemic

THE NAKED SCIENTISTS
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In this edition of The Naked Scientists, Antimicrobial Resistance, or AMR, is going under our microscope. What is it, how does it happen, what's the scale of the threat, and how can we fight back? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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