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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Of Rice and Men: How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam
Description: Fungal infections are amongst the leading infectious disease killers globally. They result in more deaths than malaria, and almost as many as tuberculosis. However, they are often overlooked, and receive less research attention and funding than viral or bacterial infections. Over the past decade, this has started to change as the emergence of resistance in fungal pathogens has caused global alarm. New, resistant organisms have emerged, and old familiar ones have become harder to treat - agricultural antifungal use is thought to be driving these trends.Dr Justin Beardsley spoke to Dr Natali Pearson about the problem...