Antibiotic resistance

we established that antibiotics have harmful side effects on the environment. When animals are administered antibiotics, it kills off other bacteria and allows antibiotic resistant bacteria to survive and multiply. This causes contamination of animal waste, which then comes into contact with water, soil, or air (Food, Farm, Animals, and Drugs 2014). Horizontal gene transfer is also a big concern for the environment. In recent years, there has been an increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria…

Antibiotics were a pivotal discovery which saved many lives during epidemics and pandemics over the recent centuries. During the 1920’s a scientist named Alexander Fleming was working as the professor of bacteriology in London at St. Mary's Hospital. Alexander was working on staphylococcus and had left some on the table which got contaminated. Later a colony was spotted in one of the samples resembling a white fluffy mass which multiplied rapidly and caused the staphylococcus to become…

First Step Background In 2008, an investigation was launched by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) to explore the causes of a Salmonella Agona outbreak that affected individuals in multiple states. Although 8 people were hospitalized as a result of an infection, no people died from the outbreak (Center for Disease and Prevention, 2008). This outbreak highlighted the ways in which CDC, FDA, and other governmental agencies collaborate to solve a…

taken to the slaughter house. They bite down on the bars which causes the gums and teeth to break down. Gestational crates are too inhuman to the point where the pigs go mentally crazy. The livestock aren’t being treated right the over usage of antibiotics and drugs are going to the point where we need to say “enough”. A way where we can make a difference is to get rid of gestation crate because there to inhuman how would you like it if that was you. Why don’t let the livestock live outside and…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that antibiotic overuse in animals used for food contributes to antibiotic resistance in humans. It is also documented that over 20,000 people die each year in the United States due to antibiotic resistant infections. It is believed that the overuse of Baytril, an antibiotic used to protect chickens and turkeys from E.Coli, led to an increase in treatment resistant bacterial infections in…

the addition of antibiotics and genetically modified E. coli to cattle feed the for the cow and its microbiome. Many of the benefits included in the posts pertained to the use of antibiotics to help improve the overall health of the cow. Antibiotics are administered to cows to help foster growth and prevent the occurrence of a disease (McEachran et. al., 2015). For example, calves are given tetracycline or sulfas in order to prevent pneumonia health (“Beef Procedures: Antibiotic Use,” n.d.).…

with fever, muscle aches and a general feeling of malaise. When large, pus-filled boils suddenly appear on your newly slim tummy, you finally present to the emergency room, where, after cultures are sent and you are given a variety of interesting antibiotics, you discover that you are now the unhappy host of Mycobacterium abscessus. M. abscessus is considered a gram positive bacterium that stains acid fast. It is aerobic in nature and rod-shaped (Miller-Keane, 2003). While it is…

diagnosis as well as antibiotic selection. The primary treatment for bacterial ulcerative 79 keratitis is intensive administration of antibiotics [1,2]. Currently, no single antibiotic 80 agent is effective against all bacterial species causing microbial keratitis [1,4]. Initial 81 treatment is done with a broad-spectrum antibiotic to cover both Gram positive and 82 Gram negative pathogens until microorganism is identified by culture. Vancomycin 83 and bacitracin are examples of antibiotics used…

However, some of the bacterial population survives because it has a resistant trait. The population will then multiply and form more resistant bacteria until eventually all bacteria are resistant to that antibiotic. This process is called mutation. Mutations are usually the cause of genetic disorders such as sickle cell anemia, Type I diabetes, and cystic fibrosis. The most popular disease that goes through mutation is the Ebola virus, which has had an outbreak…

Alexander Fleming in 1928 (“History of Antibiotics,” 2010). With the first effective compound against bacterial proliferation, infections such as syphilis and tuberculosis proved no match for the powerful drug. Yet, over decades of medical advances, the development of antimicrobial drugs has become all but stagnant, stymied by a lack of discovery of new compounds that might offer medicinal…