Antibiotic resistance

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illnesses and 23,000 deaths occur each year in the United States due to antibiotic-resistant infections. Overuse and misuse of antibiotics are the main drivers of resistance (CDC). In the field of nursing this is an issue you could encounter often. Once a patient is prescribed an antibiotic and they finish their dose with no change in symptoms you will quickly detect that there is a problem, The conversation surrounding drug resistance is mostly based on talk of what doctors and other medical…

use antibiotics in raising livestock has contributed negatively to the effectiveness of antibiotics for humans and needs to be regulated by the FDA. Over the past 80 years the use of antibiotics and other treatments has grown and expanded too many practices in how people produce food. Farmers use pesticides on vegetables and plants to kill off insects to keep production levels high. Livestock farmers use antibiotics to enhance the growth and health of animals. Unlike pesticides, antibiotics…

at under a microscope, they appear to be balls, rods, or spirals. Contrary to popular belief, most bacteria are actually good for other organisms. Under 1% of bacteria on Earth cause disease, and the bacteria that do can usually be treated with antibiotics (“Bacterial Infections: Medline Plus,” par 1). The common image of bacteria is that they are all horrific organisms that cause disease. While people should most definitely wash their hands to avoid bacterial infections such as tuberculosis and…

rather, something much scarier. They are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are unable to be killed by one of the most important aspects of modern health. Not only are these invisible microbes just as deadly and disastrous as a hostile alien race or an environmental catastrophe, but they are also a reality, already affecting thousands of…

on which antibiotics have no effect (Novitt-Moreno; Monroe). Viruses such as the ones that cause illnesses like the common cold and flu are a completely different type of organism and are unsusceptible to antibiotic treatment (Kent). When antibiotics are used to treat non-bacterial illnesses, the bacteria present in the body are exposed and have a chance to develop a resistance to that antibiotic (Novitt-Moreno). The fewer times bacteria are exposed to an antibiotic, the less resistance they…

Think of the last time you purposely inflicted a bodily harm upon yourself, or a time when you put your own body at risk. Chances are you can’t think off a time when that happened, but what if that was false? Research shows that you may be harming your body by simply eating food. What are these foods you might ask? These harmful foods go by the name of Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMO’s. These relatively new organisms produced by mutating the natural genes are understudied and are in most…

Imagine a world where something as common as strep throat could kill you. Antibiotic resistance is an issue that becomes more and more severe as each day passes, however the threat of antibiotic resistance has been easily overlooked by millions. Antibiotics are used to treat infections that are caused by thousands of different bacteria, and have saved billions of lives since penicillin was created in 1940 by Alexander Fleming (Daniel, 1987). “The current world-wide increase in resistant…

coli bacteria with a +pGlo gene to make the bacteria antibiotic resistance, have the ability to glow, and the switch to turn on and off the glowing gene. The independent gene for this lab was the addition of the plasmid into the E. coli bacteria, with the dependent variable being the expression of the gene insertion…

turned out to be an antibiotic substance called penicillin, which to his surprise, was the cure to many of the life threatening diseases at the time. With the introduction of the first ever antibiotic, it also marked the beginning of the…