What Can We Do About Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria?

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Assignment : Lesson 8

Title : What Can We Do About Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria

Abstract

This paper looks at the issue of antibiotic-resistant bacteria by focusing on the present data , ways on how this condition arises and finally proposing ways of how to overcome this problem

Introduction

The discovery of antibiotics brought a new victory in fighting bacteria which were major causes of diseases . With time some of these bacteria have undergone through genetically changes or mutations which have made them resistant to antibiotics . According to the current

data , in 2005 resistant Staphylococcus aureus was responsible for over 18 ,000 deaths and close to 94 , 000 infections (Saver , 26 . This concern spreads over other strains of bacteria necessitating for a further study

Materials and Methods

Study methods involve the exposure technique where given stains of bacteria are exposed to varying levels of antibiotics and their level of resistant to successive treatments with antibiotics observed . In regard to this some of the major cause of resistance has been the partial exposure of these bacteria to antibiotics which makes their body develop a mechanism to fight the antibiotic . Among these includes the lack of completion of a given treatments to antibiotics , haphazard use of antibiotics and even the use of antibiotics for other uses like growth control (Purdom , 1 . Other reasons include the frequent exposure to different strains of bacteria through travel . Hospitals have also become a breeding ground of antibiotic resistant bacteria

Results

It has been found that most of the...