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Lethbridge High School iGEM Team

Project

The Problem

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published a report on the dramatic increase of antibiotic resistances in bacteria around the world, stating that “A post-antibiotic era – in which common infections and minor injuries can kill – far from being an apocalyptic fantasy, is instead a very real possibility for the 21st Century”(1). Antibiotic resistances have serious medicinal and financial consequences. According to the Centres for Disease Control, approximately 70% of all people with bacterial infections in hospitals in the Unites(2) or 1.4 million people get bacterial infections that are resistant to at least one prevalently used antibiotic in hospitals in the United States every year. Furthermore, the National Academy of Science estimates an increase of $4 billion in healthcare costs every year in the United States associated with antibiotic resistant bacteria(2).

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