Antibiotic resistance happens when an antibiotic loses its ability to effectively control or kill bacteria. The bacteria become "resistant" and continue to grow because the antibiotic being administered has no ability to kill them. The World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
It's kind of scary to think of a world filled with antibiotic resistant bacteria. I guess we just have to hope that there are people out there who are able to come up with new antibiotics as fast as the old ones stop working.
Misuse or overuse of antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistance.1Once bacteria become resistant to an antibiotic, it can be difficult—and sometimes impossible—to kill them.3They can remain in your body for years and even pass on their antibiotic resistance to other bacteria.4 This article discus...
Many antibiotics are very specific as to the species of bacteria it wants to target and kill. When developing resistance, this particular bacteria can change parts of itself so it is unrecognizable to the very antibiotic designed to destroy it....
Currently, most research has focused on measuring concentrations of antibiotics and characterising the abundance and diversity of ARGs and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) in the environment. To date, there has been limited empirical research on whether humans are exposed to this, and whether ...
Manuel Razo-Mejia:When I expose bacteria to antibiotics, they’re going to become resistant, which is very bad because we haven’t discovered a new antibiotic in the last 30 years. Growing up back in Mexico, you did...
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(抗生素) first became available,farmers used them freely.Now scientists know that the overuse of antibiotics can cultivate drug-resistant bacteria that are dangerous to human health.Among debates over what kinds of restrictions should be put in place.figuring out how antibiotic-r...
resistantbacteria flourish even in the presence of an antibiotic, tolerant bacteria often exist in a dormant state, neither growing nor dying but putting up with the antibiotic until they can �reawaken� once the stress is gone. Tolerance has beenlinked to the spread of antibiotic resistance...
GMS | GMS Hygiene and Infection Control | Antibiotic resistance: What is so special about multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria? The global burden of bacterial resistance remains one of the most serious public health concerns. Infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria i... M Exne...