Bacteria and the case of rising antimicrobial resistance

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:19:36 +0000

It’s the year 2012. I am in my second year of Bachelor’s degree in CBM (Chemistry, Botany, Microbiology) at the JC Road campus of Jain (deemed-to-be) University, Bangalore. The college building is a seven-floor sleek tower, and our class is being held in one of the cuboid classrooms on the fifth floor. I am late for the morning class yet again, so let’s call it a routine rather than an anomaly. Thankfully, the professor, Dr Vijayalakshmi Pradeep, lets me in. As I settle down, in our class of twenty-something twenty somethings, she finishes taking our attendance and gets up. She walks between two rows of seats, and after reaching the middle, declares, “Today, my dear delinquents, we are going to learn about antibiotics.”