In 1928, the British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the world's first antibiotic [1]. Since that time, many different antibiotics have been discovered and are now widely used for disease treatment in clinical medicine, saving the lives of countless people [2]. However, th...
Antibiotic resistance occurs when disease-causing microorganisms (i.e. bacteria and fungi) evolve the ability to survive treatment from antibiotic drugs designed to kill them. TheWorld Health Organization(WHO) describes antibiotic resistance as “one of the biggest threats to global health, food securit...
caesarean sections, and the widespread use of sanitisers and antiseptics, to name just a few…..In the presence of antibiotics, the resistant organisms are the ones more fit; it is the pressure of intensive antibiotic use that is increasing the presence of these resistant organisms.……...
surprise, even to themselves. The famous scientist Alexander Fleming said, “When I woke up just after daybreak on 28th September,1928, I certainly didn’t plan torevolutionize(变革) all medicine by discovering the world’s firstantibiotic(抗生素). But I guess that was exactly what I did.”...
what caused it. We could ask every restaurant, every supermarket, where their meat comes from. We could promise each other never again to buy chicken or shrimp or fruit raised with routine antibiotic use, and if we did those things, we could slow down the arrival of the post-antibiotic ...
, even to themselves. The famous scientist Alexander Fleming said, "When I woke up just after daybreak on 28th September, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize(变革) all medicine by discovering the world's' first ...