Rise of the Superbug - Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria: Dr. Karl Klose at TEDxSanAntonio 

This was my microbiology teacher at UTSA! I miss this guy, his lectures were always so engaging and insightful. I wish he would teach med micro at my school now :)

Outstanding presentation. Comedy and simplistic descriptions. This is the mark of an excellent teacher. Highly complex data brought down to a kindergardener's level. Not everybody can do that. Again OUTSTANDING.

Such an incredibly important talk, arguably one of the most important... It's really a shame they had technical difficulties....

This shouldn't be funny but this guy is hilarious I know they say a lot of people won't take something seriously if it's light hearted but I think it makes people listen more! Great presentation!

First I would like to say that the presentation was outstanding and thank you for explaining such a vague topic so simply and beautifully. To begin with, Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the world's most pressing public health problems. It can cause illnesses that were once easily treatable with antibiotics to become dangerous infections, prolonging suffering for children and adults. Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to resist the effects of an antibiotic. It occurs when bacteria change in a way that reduces the effectiveness of drugs, chemicals, or other agents designed to cure or prevent infections. The bacteria survive and continue to multiply, causing more harm. I also appreciated the point that every time a person takes antibiotics, sensitive bacteria (bacteria that antibiotics can still attack) are killed, but resistant bacteria are left to grow and multiply. This is how repeated use of antibiotics can increase the number of drug-resistant bacteria. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria can spread to family members, schoolmates, and co-workers, and may threaten your community. I totally agree with Dr. Klose that the bacteria are amazing organisms that have a variety of strategies to cause disease and antibiotics are the one to fight bacteria. The FDA should encourage the researcher and pharmacist to develop new antibiotics and new classes of antibiotics and other antimicrobials. Yet bacteria can rapidly convert to become antibiotic resistant, they are in the constant presence of antibiotics, such as in hospitals. If the fight against bacterial infections is viewed as a war against an ever-changing foe, the best strategy is to constantly develop new "weapons". It would be great if the researcher discovers new antibiotics. In addition, people should use the existing antibiotics carefully. As Dr. Klose mentioned, with new antibiotics we can maintain the upper hand against the rise of superbugs.

I was shocked at the end. Up until the end Dr Klose's talk provided support/evidence of overuse of antibiotics and at the end he said we need to make more antibiotics, just stronger and faster.....hmmmm....

Audience keep laughing. I can tell you one thing. I was sick on superbactetia. There was no laughing then.

Who’s watching this in 2019 after the super bug news?

Excellent talk! I plan to use this in my biology class when speaking about antibiotic resistance. Thanks!

Who the hell dislikes such an insightful video about a serious issue???

Beautiful way to explain this difficult topic...thanks :)

Amazing outstanding description by Dr Karl..Difficult concept now for me looks easier one..

amazing presentation. no word to add

I'm a little disappointed that the conclusion is that we need new and more powerful antibiotics. How do we address the problem of bacteria continuing to evolve to resist the antibiotics?

The World Health Organization states that the greatest risk for zoonotic disease transmission occurs at the human-animal interface through direct or indirect human exposure to animals, their products (e.g. meat, milk, eggs...) and/or their environments.

this is my uncle and i have gotten this lecture before. he can be a very funny dude but not when he is on business. He is a great guy tho ^_^

New antibiotics. Yes. Stop giving antibiotics for every little thing? For sure.

November 2022, I sure I won't. Forget this day.

thank you for this valuable and fantastic lesson !

I had acinetobacter,pseudomonas,enterococcus,clostridium difficile,Mesa,cadidosis all going on at once contracted in Thailand

I agree with his sentiment towards the idea that we need to help humanity. But, his ideal solution is to just keep developing antibiotics as if that can last forever, when data clearly points towards a total immunization within the next 30+ years. He is quite LITERALLY speaking on how the bugs with time are easily catching on to our "super drugs", yet clearly insists that we continue to follow the same path. We need to turn back to nature and find naturally powerful solutions. Check out Manuka Honey

Our answer is Hemp Oil. That plant was given to us by nature. Should be used to treat any infection or possibly any disease. There is no such thing as "hemp oil resistance" lol

Good point. My test was quite shallow; I just pressed the button and checked to see if I could.

Awesome, Karl! I loved it!

Anybody watching this while doing school?

How many people in America have an antibiotic-resistant condition? Not how many cases a year (2 million).

Anybody wanna work on a topical bacterialcide supplement using tannins, flavonoids, polyphenols, and pg with me?

I agree with you; but I am watching it right now and fear I might be missing all the edits, ie I don't see them. Can you share at what points the talk has been (visibly) edited? Thanks :)

Who else had to watch this in biology😳

I jsut made another test; after reloading the page, Thumbs down is still down, and shows on the counter. Maybe that part is jsut a bug in RU-vid, or a glitch with your browser? I don't think it's possible to disable *only* Thumbs downs without disabling Thumbs ups.

I'm with Ian. If there was a power outage wouldn't the light have gone out? It would seem as if there would almost be total darkness. And a brief intermission to restore power. But is was cut and picked up as if edited. I have seen power outage videos and this TED video was edited. For what reason I'm not sure. I wouldn't go as far as to say censored but this is very sketch.

why was this messed with?

dr.Karl klose tells it like it is.

Inkorect bots - Octopus

Thumbs down because you can tell they chopped the video down

ok solution???

I am forced to watch this for school. Anyone wanna play Minecraft like ya know if your also forced to watch this for a school assignment.

March 5th 2023

Using cheap, shitty generic versions made in India doesn't help either. Cheap medicine brands are poor quality and often don't work as well as the branded stuff. Cost-cutting costs lives!

If antibiotics were originally adaptations developed by organisms as a defense mechanism against bacteria, perhaps the key to solving antibiotic resistance is exposing these types of organisms (fungus, etc.) to antibiotic resistant bacteria to try to provide the evolutionary pressure for them to develop an effective defense. Now evolution is a slow process but perhaps it can be helped along by carefully monitored selective breeding and genetic engineering of promising organism candidates.

Industrial Scale Microbiome Mining for anti-infectives and antivirals - building an arsenal using advanced direct access technologies.

Kind of choppy, but gives good exposure for the antibiotic epidemic.

Prevention the best and maybe only way to go, invest more in environmental health. However, with evident effects of climate change, antibiotic resistance will only get worse.

I'm lost, I understood that he said until 10mins in. Lol

I feel like a zombie apocolipse could happen

Actually, there are blue eyes under every set of brown eyes lol

That's right... Thumbs down seems to be working, though.

Fake news.

This dude lie

Epigenetics: don't it make my brown eyes blue PS I became resistant to antibiotics when I suffered from tonsillitis as a child. Bouts escalated from one to three and four a year and I was due to have them removed age 12. But I had a cold on my first day in hospital so the doctor sent me home and rescheduled for 2 weeks later. I didn't want to go back to hospital so my grandmother suggested gargling with lukewarm salty water next time I got tonsillitis and I did. I never went back to have my tonsils out and now I'm 49, still have them and if I feel im getting a dose of tonsillitis I gargle with lukewarm salty water. This can happen once every two or three years. I haven't used antibiotics for that since I was 12.