Microbes – friend or foe?
Offered By: The Open University via OpenLearn
Course Description
Overview
Microbes often get a bad name. Whilst some of them do cause disease, others play vital roles in recycling nutrients in the soil to enable plants to grow, and in breaking down human waste. Without microbes, we would have no beer, no yoghurt, no coffee. That's quite impressive for something too small to see. This free course, Microbes friend or foe? sheds some light on them.
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Disease-causing bacteria
- 1 Disease-causing bacteria
- 1.1 Evolution of antibiotic resistance in microbes
- 2 Microbes in sewage treatment
- 2 Microbes in sewage treatment
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
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