4/5 We encouraged students to engage with the idea that genes for antibiotic resistance can spread between “good” (commensal) and “bad” (pathogenic) bacteria. This activity also presents students with opportunities to develop and test their own hypotheses.
3/5 Toward presenting these complex problems to middle school students, @tadpoles12 and I have written a paper describing a reusable, safe, and cost-effective method for representing the microbiome using beads.
1/5 Antibiotic resistance is a big problem the world is facing. You may be familiar with “C. diff” or other bacterial infections that we now struggle to treat because our antibiotics don’t work on them anymore. Antibiotic resistance can also be a little confusing as a concept.