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    the life of prison staff, visitors, and inmates at risk for diseases that have evolved to resist antibiotics, making them hard to treat. Prisons in the U.S. have become amplifiers to drug resistant diseases such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, venereal infections, and tuberculosis. Antibiotic resistant…

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    that differs at this time, but if we had one it would be of interest. Interviewer: Do concerns around antibiotic resistance ever influence your choice of treatment regimen for MRSA? Dr. Nick: Do you mean about antibiotic resistance that they already have or preventing antibiotic resistance? Interviewer: Preventing, for example, some people maybe have concerns about the development of resistance against Linezolid, or sort of increasing [inaudible][00:13:58] with…

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    population if possible. This was based on their evaluation of some observational studies one of them was done with 229 patients at 4 different institutions which showed the variation in pathogens, their frequency and their resistance patterns .Another study found that the resistance pattern found in general hospital antibiogram reflected in the ICU acquired infections as well. Based on all of these findings, the guidelines recommend on…

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    one organism are transferred to another within different species such as animals, plants, bacteria, and so on, resulting in a modified organism which carries enhanced desirable traits. These traits include more nutrients, faster growth, stronger resistance to diseases and insects, longer storage life, and other purposes. For instance,…

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    MRSA

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    Various individuals cannot fathom growing up without the technological advances we have today. The creation of the internet and social media has made the ability to exchange and share information at a rapid rate the norm today. No longer is the bevy of news ingested after dinner with the local and national news broadcasts or with the morning coffee through the local newspaper. The internet provides a pathway for access of information provided by mass media outlets such as CNN and peer-to-peer…

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    Feeding antibiotics to animals, who are not yet ill, is that it kills off there weak bacteria, and the other members of bacteria have minimal alterations in their genetic matter, thereby allowing them to survive, abling them to reproduce and pass on their resistance. When such animals consume antibiotics daily, such as tetracycline or penicillin, they gain more weight quickly, thereby assisting with the animals…

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    advantages more than antibiotics [39]. First of all, phages have a broad antibacterial activity even against antibiotic resistance bacteria [124, 125, 126] like MRSA as phage can be used as sanitizing agent against hospital acquired infections like MRSA [86]. Also a phage (pVp-1) was able to overcome the resistant strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in experimentally infected mice [127]. Phages can lyse bacteria in the supurrative wounds, mucous membrane and biofilm which are antibiotics…

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    drug after another. When resistance arose, they tried another. Finally, they just ran out of drugs" (par.1). This means that pathogens over time have gotten used to simple vaccines that were once able to kill pathogens. These pathogens have gotten so strong and resistant they have become unable to treat. This is dangerous to human society because without the vaccines these dangerous pathogens can live on in people 's body and eventually kill them. In the article, “Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria”,…

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    Providers: The doctors must approve the plan and guide their staff in making sure that the correct information is disseminated to the patients. The reasoning is that they are ultimately responsible for this information and have the final say about antibiotic prescriptions. Additionally, doctors are typically the last person that speak to patients from a medical perspective; and it is important that any educational opportunities that was provided by the nurse is followed up by the provider. 2.…

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    Recently, the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has re-emerged on a global scale. Thankfully, it is not the result of a mass pandemic, but the result of the United Nations issuing a statement that “Antimicrobial resistance poses a fundamental threat to human health, development, and security…” The statements underlies what scientists and medical professionals have been saying for years; that AMR is a serious threat facing the entire world. Since humans first used antimicrobials to treat…

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