Introduction: Rise of the Superbugs (2:38) -- Sponsors: Rise of the Superbugs (0:45) -- Stephen Fights Pneumonia (2:51) -- Bacteria: Our Deadliest Enemy (2:20) -- Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin (2:12) -- Building on Fleming's Discovery (2:38) -- Solving the Production Problem (1:52) -- Microbial Comeback (2:03) -- The Threat of TB Returns (1:55) -- Multi-Drug Resistant TB (2:50) -- Untreatable Strains Spreading (2:24) -- Trying to Treat Multiple-Resistant TB (3:23) -- Finding Alternative Treatments (4:00) -- Abandoning Antibiotic Research (1:49) -- Microbial Cage Match (2:43) -- The MRSA Strain (2:32) -- Ricky Lannetti (2:24) -- Dire Need for New Antibiotics (1:45) -- One Aggressive Shot (3:21) -- Two-Year Experiment (2:10) -- Gamble Pays Off (3:04) -- Crisis of Drug Resistance (2:15) -- Credits, Additional Resources, & Sponsors (2:58).

It's difficult to imagine a world without antibiotics and yet, before the twentieth century, there werent any. The discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin, and the subsequent development of more (3z (Bwonder drugs, (3y (B transformed the face of modern medicine. This program chronicles these successes as well as the growing threat posed by new strains of germs, such as tuberculosis and staph, that are resistant to our best antibiotics.

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