Antibiotics look like any other drugs — and that’s a problem

Heiman Wertheim (right) has spoken to people buying and selling antibiotics in Ghana to understand when and why antibiotics are dispensed. Credit:Samuel Afari Asiedu If people can’t identify antibiotics, they won’t use them with the care necessary to minimize antimicrobial resistance. Heiman Wertheim, a medical microbiologist at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, is principal investigator of the Antibiotic Access and Use (ABACUS) project. …