What is Antibiotic Resistance?

What if I told you there were trillions of tiny bacteria all around you? It's true. Microorganisms called bacteria were some of the first life forms to appear on Earth. Though they consist of only a single cell, their total biomass is greater than that of all plants and animals combined. And they live virtually everywhere: on the ground, in the water, on your kitchen table,...

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The Resistance Fighter

As a visiting research fellow at the Pasteur Institute in 1962, on leave from medical school, Stuart Levy met a Japanese scientist who introduced him to an exciting recent breakthrough by researchers from his country. “The Japanese had discovered that resistance to antibiotics could be transferred from one bacterium to another,” Levy says—even across species. “This was...

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Antibiotic Resistance Can Boost Bacterial Fitness

Certain mutations that seem to confer antibiotic resistance in three different pathogenic bacterial species also provide a growth advantage and increased virulence during an infection, according to a study published in Science Translational Medicine today (July 22). While there are many well-known examples of antibiotic-resistance mutations that reduce bacterial fitness,...

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What's Causes Antibiotic Resistance?

What are the possible consequences of antibiotic resistance? Many of the available treatment options for common bacterial infections are becoming more and more ineffective. As a consequence, there are situations where infected patients cannot be treated adequately by any of the available antibiotics. This resistance may delay and hinder treatment, resulting in complications...

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Solutions for Antibiotic Resistance

1. Collect Data The European Union has detailed, 15-year data on antibiotic use by drug, and resistance data by microbe, covering 26 countries. They know what and where the problems are. For example, Greece has the highest per capita use of antibiotics, and The Netherlands has among the lowest. The proportion of Klebsiella isolates that are carbapenemase-producing in Greece...

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Antibiotic Resistance and MRSA

Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that can be found on the skin and in the throat. It cause range of illnesses from minor skin infections to life-threatening disease such as meningitis and septicemia. Some strains of Staphylococcus aureus have evolved become resistant to one or more of the commonly used antibiotics including methicillin. These are termed methicillin-resistant...

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Antibiotic Resistance and TB

TB is a bacterial disease of the lungs. Antibiotics can be used to treat TB but they need to be taken for 6 - 9 months and this is where the problem lies.  - TB that is resistant to the 2 most commonly used antibiotics (isoniazid and rifampin) is called multidrug resistant (MDR) TB. - MDR TB requires treatment for 18-24 months with "second-line drugs" (there...

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Prevent Antibiotic Resistance Now!!

They are some important steps should be taken by every human to prevent and stop antibiotic resistance. Doctors, nurses, veterinarians and other health workers Don’t prescribe or dispense antibiotics unless they are truly necessary and you have made all efforts to test and confirm which antibiotic your human patient or the animal you are treating should have. Today,...

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What the Industry do from Antibiotics?

In our life when we hear about antibitics, we always relate antibiotics with humans. But the truth is not only humans are taking antibiotics. More than 80% of antibiotics are given for animals for the rapid growth and to prevent from sicks caught from not clean environments. It's maybe sounds great but they are not. Over the years there has been a significant increase...

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