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‘Superbugs’: raising public awareness of antimicrobial resistance through a pop-up science shop

Jon Tyrrell Orcid Logo, Christie S. Conlon, Ali F. Aboklaish, Sarah Hatch, Carl Smith, Jordan Mathias, Kathryn Thomson, Matthias Eberl Orcid Logo

Research for All, Volume: 6, Issue: 1

Swansea University Author: Jon Tyrrell Orcid Logo

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‘Superbugs: A Pop-up Science Shop’ was a public engagement event in the school summer holidays of 2019, organised by members of Cardiff University’s School of Medicine. We transformed an empty retail unit in the centre of Wales’s largest shopping centre into an interactive and immersive microbiology...

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