Vaccination cuts reliance on antibiotics: Experts
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Felicia Choo
Vaccines play an important role in the fight against germs which have become resistant to medicine.
Antimicrobial resistance is the process of micro-organisms - bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites - changing when they are exposed to antimicrobial drugs such as antibiotics, antifungals and antivirals.