Video: How do antibiotics change our gut bacteria?

Apr 24, 2015

Jean Claret

Our Impact

What's the World Economic Forum doing to accelerate action on Emerging Technologies?

The Big Picture

Explore and monitor how Global Governance is affecting economies, industries and global issues

A hand holding a looking glass by a lake

Crowdsource Innovation

Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale

Stay up to date:

Future of Global Health and Healthcare

Resistance to antibiotics is one of our biggest global health challenges. Jean Claret, Consultant, Hôpital Saint-Joseph, France says antibiotics can change gut flora and lead to the selection of highly resistant bacteria, and more research is needed to fix the problem.

Author: Jean Claret is a Consultant at Hôpital Saint-Joseph.

Image: Test tubes filled with samples of bacteria. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett.

Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.