March 09, 2018
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Launch of the new "Resistance to antibacterial agents" MOOC
As part of the ongoing development of its online training, the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Paris Diderot University, has set up a MOOC on resistance to antibacterial agents. The spread of antimicrobial resistance, probably linked to the excessive and poorly controlled use of antibiotics in human and veterinary medicine, could lead to serious public health problems over the next few years. WHO predicts that if no effective measures are taken, mortality from infection could return to the very high levels witnessed before the discovery of antibiotics.
This MOOC describes the mechanism of action of antibiotics, the epidemiology of resistance, the molecular bases and spread of resistance, techniques to detect resistance and recommended measures to control it, as well as new infection prevention strategies.
The MOOC is aimed at a broad and varied audience including infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, public health physicians, healthcare workers, scientists and staff working in government agencies.
Teaching team
- Dr. Béatrice Berçot
Head of the Clinical Bacteriology Laboratory of the St Louis Hospital, Paris. Bacteriologist, medical doctor and Member of the Team Infection, Antimicrobials Modelling Evolution (IAME), Paris-Diderot University.
- Prof. Didier Mazel
Head of the "Bacterial Genome Plasticity" Research Unit, Institut Pasteur. Director of the "Genome analysis" Course Institut Pasteur. Chairman of the Department of "Genomes and Genetic", Institut Pasteur.
- Prof. Patrick Trieu-Cuot
Head of the "Biology of Gram-positive pathogens" Research Unit, Institut Pasteur. Director of the "Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics" Course, Institut Pasteur.