Department of Microbiology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay.
Department of Microbial Biochemistry and Genomics, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay.
FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2019 Jul 1;366(14). doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnz171.
For microbiologists, the importance of microorganisms in our daily lives and their impact on our well-being is evident. However, microbiology literacy in our society is far from being enough for individuals to make informed choices and to demand actions based on that information. The vaccine hesitation movement and the alarming increase in antimicrobial resistance due to overuse and misuse of antibiotics are just two examples of how much work is needed to make our society literate in topics related to microbiology. Considering the challenges of communicating a discipline surrounded by misconceptions, which studies the role of living organisms that cannot be seen in plain sight, we need to explore different strategies to effectively contribute to microbiology literacy in our society. Here, we will comment on the use of comics for such a task.
对于微生物学家来说，微生物在我们日常生活中的重要性及其对我们健康的影响是显而易见的。然而，我们社会中的微生物学素养还远远不够，无法让个人做出明智的选择，并根据这些信息要求采取行动。疫苗犹豫运动以及由于抗生素的过度使用和滥用而导致的抗微生物药物耐药性的惊人增长，只是需要做多少工作才能使我们的社会在与微生物学相关的主题方面具有素养的两个例子。考虑到在一个被误解的学科进行交流的挑战，这个学科研究肉眼看不见的生物的作用，我们需要探索不同的策略，以便有效地为我们社会的微生物学素养做出贡献。在这里，我们将评论使用漫画来完成这项任务。
