TEDxUniversityofGothenburg - Joakim Larsson - Our Drugs in their Water December 21, 2011

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Where do the drugs we use come from, and what happens with the waste from their production? A daunting journey from Sweden to India and the pollution of active substances affecting the environment in so many ways.

Joakim Larsson is associate professor of physiology at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, and performs research on antibiotic resistance in the external environment -- the role of antibiotic pollution in the selection of resistance and subsequent gene transfer to the human microbiome.

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