Hospital-acquired infections – better diagnostics for rapid treatment

A Hospital. A place where you generally don't like to go, but are
glad that it's there when you need it. A place that smells of
disinfectant. It's called ‘clinically clean’. And then the
inappropriate-sounding aliteration ‘hospital germ’. A place where
you are supposed to get well becomes a threat to your health from
pathogens that are often so persistent that there are hardly any
effective drugs against them. Multi-resistant bacteria. How can
that be? And above all: how can we deal with it? Prof Susanne
Häußler and her Molecular Bacteriology research group at the HZI
and the Twincore in Hanover are investigating this. In this
episode, we talk about the clever strategies bacteria use to become
multi-resistant hospital germs, how ways of dealing with them are
being researched and what we can all do to protect ourselves and
vulnerable patients from them.