Biology
Biology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9780321794260
Author: Audesirk, Teresa/ Audesirk
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Chapter 36.9, Problem 1CT
Summary Introduction

To determine:

The way through which the medical community should balance the benefits of antibiotic treatment for individuals against the overall risk to society of increased antibiotic resistance among bacteria.

Introduction:

Antibiotics can only be produced by a living organism such as bacteria. Microbes that can produce antibiotics are useful for the prevention and treatment of many diseases including bacterial and fungal diseases. More than thirty antibiotics have been isolated from these groups. The saturation of antibiotics into the surrounding deeply affected the evolution of bacteria.

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is formed because they alter in some way that decreases the drug effectiveness and they begin to multiply causing disease or harm. The antibiotic bacteria and some of the bacteria are resistant to that antibiotic and continue to double their number that may cause disease.

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