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New research suggests that UK funding into antimicrobial resistance is €inadequate for the size of the task€. Researchers used websites and databases to identify publicly and charitably funded bacteriology and antibiotic research in the UK between 2008 and 2013. About a third (32.2 per cent) of the 609 bacteriology research projects were on antibiotics.

The bodies provided £13.8bn in research funds, but awarded only £269.2m (1.9 per cent) to bacteriology. Of this, just £95m (0.7 per cent) funded research on antibiotics. Research consortia examining antibiotics, which included UK researchers, received another £181.4m in European Union funding.