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Antibiotic resistance: a threat to the environment and our health ?

By 2050, it could be responsible for 10 million deaths a year. Yet this phenomenon doesn't just concern hospitals: it's all around us, in our soil, our water and our ecosystems.

Arnaud Machelart, INSERM researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Lille and belonging to CIIL, Axelle Grandé and Amine Pauchet, who are doing their doctoral thesis in his group, explain how we can take action today to prevent antibioresistance.