When talking about antimicrobial resistance, the discourse generally refers to drug-resistant bacteria (i.e., antibiotic resistance). However, it is important to note that the term “antimicrobial” encompasses a wider group of medications that includes antivirals, antifungals, as well as antibiotics....
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But bacteria continued to acquire resistance and pass it alongby sharing genetic information between individual bacteriaand even across species.Now bacteria that are resistant to many antibiotics are common,and increasingly some strains are resistant to all our current drugs.So, what can we do about...
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How can bacteria acquire drug resistance besides through mutation? How do pathogens evade the innate immune system? How could a microbiological infection lead to tissues damage in a host organism? How do epidemics spread? How many microbes are in the human body?
Beta-glucan can possibly replace over-used antibiotics and help to quell the plague of antibiotic resistance. Vaccine Adjuvant (Enhancer) According to a report published in thejournalAnticancer Research: “[T]he common dogma states that [glucans] act on cellular immunity only. … [G]lucans are...
In nature, bacterial transformation is an important mechanism for the acquisition of genetic elements encodingvirulence factorsandantibiotic resistance. Genes encoding resistance to antimicrobial compounds have been shown to be widespread in nature, even in environments not influenced by humans. These genes...
How can bacteria acquire drug resistance besides through mutation? How does a bacteriophage enter your body? How is granulomatous amebic encephalitis transmitted? How does influenza evade the innate immune system? How does cholera spread? How is encephalitis contracted?
Writing inScience Translational Medicine, Drs. Sarah Schrader, Julien Vaubourgeix, and Carl Nathan painted a portrait that is dire—yet encouraging—as they demystifiedantibiotic resistanceand defined how bacteria acquire the capacity to thwart what was previously lethal. ...
How does C. diphtheriae acquire virulence? How does cholera spread? How are infectious disease microbes transmitted? How does E. coli become resistant to antibiotics? How are pathogens spread? How does Yersinia pestis attack and spread? How have antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria evolved?