Research Paper On Superbugs

“Superbug” is the nickname given to the bacterium MRSA. It is called this because of its resistance to most antibiotics (1). Each year there are approximately 126,000 people hospitalized and 19,000

Bacteria that are resistant to several types of antibiotics are called multi-resistant bacteria (also known as superbugs). Superbugs have caused a global epidemic, hiding in plain sight. Every year, superbugs kill off thousands of people, rob them of their health insurance and cost the state millions in order to control this so called epidemic.

A Superbug is a bacterium that can live in the human body and has the ability to withstand all forms of antibiotic medication. Superbugs are becoming increasingly significant in modern medicine as they are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. Antibiotics were discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming (Walsh and McManus, 2000). This resulted in a huge movement forward in medical history and even greatened human life expectancy. Since then antibiotics have been widely used and abused, people began to treat everything with this ‘miracle’ drug. If antibiotics are continually used as bacteria grows exponentially more resistant to them then eventually society will fall back into an era without the readily

New bacteria can eventually enter the consumer's body. According to Consumer Reports, superbugs are created very easily, “The reason for this is that when you feed antibiotics to animals, the bacteria in and around the animals are exposed to the drug, and many of them die. But there are always some that the drug can’t kill, and those survive and proliferate. Voila, superbugs." (The). In the book Omnivore’s DIlemma, the author states, “By giving antibiotics to the millions of cattle in the U.S. we are actually breeding new super bacteria that can't be killed by antibiotics” (Chevat and Pollan 60). New incurable bacteria is created and spread. Consumer Reports also explore into the misuse of the antibiotics, “Most recently in 2012, the FDA stated ‘Misuse and overuse of antimicrobial drugs creates selective evolutionary pressure that enables antimicrobial resistant bacteria to increase in numbers more rapidly than antimicrobial susceptible bacteria and thus increases the opportunity for individuals to become infected by resistant bacteria’” (The). The misuse of antibiotics can create bacteria which many people can become infected with. Using antibiotics is causing new incurable bacteria to breed, which can eventually enter the consumer's

The article “The End of Antibiotics” discusses a 57 year old man that was dying and how doctors could only sit by while his condition deteriorated. This man was not shot or stabbed, he was infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria that was slowly killing him. He died months later after being bombarded with antibiotics in the form of capsules, tablets, and IVs (Begley par.1). This is the unsettling power that superbugs like this one has over modern day medicine. A superbug is a bacteria that has evolved its cellular structure to resist antibiotics. Dr. Richard Wenzel of the University of Iowa stated, “Only a few years after penicillin came into wide use with World War II, strains of staph had emerged

Little research has been done on human superbugs but even less on antibiotic resistance in animals and whether the bacteria can be passed on to humans (Press Release 1998). The problem with the growing number of bacteria that are resistance to available antibiotics, is that there are very few new antibiotics in development. The financial costs of creating newer and stronger antibiotics are exceedingly high. Pharmaceutical manufactures either don’t have the money or refuse to because of the small amount of profit they will make from these one off drugs. Research institutes are another option for new antibiotics but also don’t have the sufficient financial support (Kesselheim 2010). Antibiotic resistant patients require extensive care and there are rare cases that they need complete isolation. The cost of this intensive care for long periods of time is phenomenal. With growing rates of resistance cases more isolation units are going to be in need which will cost governments hundreds, even thousands of dollars to provide (Lansing 2011). The economic factors of antibiotic resistance for developing world countries are worrying. Some counties health systems have no where near enough financial support or staff members to help the number of superbug patients (Kaier 2011). The economic implications of the growing rates of superbug cases is concerning. Globally there is very

The world health organisation has announced antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs as a great threat to human race. Superbugs are defined as bacteria equipped bacteria with "bullet proof vests” of antibiotic resistance that deflect "magic silver bullets" of antibiotics. Under right circumstances, they can transfer the antibiotic resistance genes to other bacteria and completely paralyse humans to combat against bacteria (news.com.au 2014). In Australia, thousands of people per year are diagnosed with superbugs and these victims often face a prolonged illness and ultimately death (Pogson 2012). The severity of the problem can become apparent by referring to the death attributable to antibiotic resistance every year from 2014 to 2050,

In doing research for an example of natural selection, I came across antibiotic resistant bacteria. This has become one of the biggest threats to the healthcare community and Center for Disease Control. Through the use of antibiotics in treatments that are not necessarily bacterial infections, as well as the over use and misuse of antibiotics, bacteria have evolved in ways making the antibiotics used against them useless. If a bacteria manages to survive through a dose of an antibiotic, they are capable of mutating and can transfer their DNA to other bacteria. The new bacteria multiply quickly and spread to other parts of your body or outside of your body to a new host. Once the bacteria have mutated and its DNA has been transferred to

Bacteria can be a scary thing, but some people do not even know what bacteria is but doctors have created antibiotics to destroy it. “Many people are unaware what bacteria are and how antibiotics control them.”(Voss, Bristol) Basically bacteria a large group of unicellular microorganisms that have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease. Antibiotics are used to destroy bacteria, but if a person is prescribed too many antibiotics they may become immune to antibiotics forever and have to live without a strong immune system. Antibiotics attacks bacteria by preventing it from building a wall to defend itself from the body's immune system. So the body’s immune system can easily kill the bacteria.

The term “superbug” has been a headline in today’s conversations. America is known to be the number one country that’s is overly medicated, and one day our bodies would become resistant to the very same medications that would someday be needed to save your life. Scary as it sounds it is true. Superbugs or CRE (Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae) is very serious among hospitals, colleges, foods, nursing homes, or one in twenty-five acute care facilities across the globe known to have contracted CRE in the past year. In a headline on CNBC the CDC mentions that over “forty-seven million unnecessary prescribed antibiotic prescriptions are given every year in the United States.” Meanwhile, as a faster way of promoting healthier livestock farmers

The second installment of the video series “Rx for Survival,” concerned itself with implications pertaining to bacteria that have become antibiotic-resistant and was titled “Rise of the Superbugs.” The video presented the cases of individuals who were afflicted with maladies resulting from bacterial infections that were not being impeded by the normative pharmaceutical care that we have used for many decades and take for granted.

As a writer for The Globe and Mail, Jennifer Yang, stated, “Anti-bacterial products containing anti-microbial agents are being increasingly marketed to Canadians for personal and household use despite a lack of evidence for additional benefit and serious concerns about the potential for increased bacterial resistance.” The concern she is talking about is centred in the use of the products such as disinfectant sprays, of which can kill 99.9% of bacteria on a given surface. The 0.1% that is left remaining is the mutated antibiotic-resistant super bug which the disinfectant is unable to kill due to its mutated nature. And being the only type left, it has no competitors remaining for resources and can divide at a rapid pace, giving birth to a larger colony of highly dangerous pathogens. The same phenomena occurs when patients stop taking antibiotics half way through their treatment. The amount of bacteria in their body at that point has a higher percentage of stronger bacteria than the weaker. Therefore, when the patient decides to stop their antibiotic treatment, they inadvertently create more resistant bacteria than there originally was in their body, as the mutated bacteria now has more room to grow. If those bacteria are then passed on to another person, the rate of resistant bacteria dramatically increases, raising the amount of near invincible pathogens in the world by another percentage.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are a rapidly growing concern in the world due to the concerns and precautions we take in order to prevent them. Some bacteria just have a strong disliking for certain antibiotics, making them resistant to these medications. Here is how we should fix them and some of the many concerns within the world.

One imminent problem that I don’t believe gets enough attention is the rise of antimicrobial resistance, or in other words, the formation of superbugs. For the purposes of this oh-so exceptional prompt, I’ll imagine there’s an epidemic sweeping across the United States, and to make things even worse, it has a 100% mortality rate.

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