Antibiotics

*SCENE 1 : Calgene Lab* Scientist A: According to my research, once I perform this experiment, it will interfere with the production of the protein that causes the decay. Scientist A: I just need to do this and..*stomach grumbles*...nope. I need to go to the restroom for a bit. What this scientist didn't know is that his son was watching from afar. Son: Oooooh, a needle. But why is the tomato the only one left with no needles? Son: Let me fix that. The son then sticks the needle to the…

Furthermore, the inappropriate prescription of antibiotics can reinforce the health-seeking behaviour of patients. Linked with these knowledge gaps and reinforcement are skills gaps among some patients who decide not to seek help. The moral hazard arising from universal and ‘free at the point of care’ health services may be blamed for marginalising the value of self-care. There may be conflict between messages encouraging self-care and social marketing campaigns in other areas that leverage risk…

Industrial farms are pumping our livestock full of antibiotics and it's harming societies all over the world. Since the likes of farmers and pastures are shrinking and feedlots and monopolies are growing, the process of meat production has gotten much less intimate and a whole lot more like factory farming. This means that since meat companies want to make as much profit as possible by squeezing as many livestock as they can into one space, they have to find a way to reduce sickness and death…

limitations to phage therapy, there lies many advantages in utilizing phages to fight bacteria. Arguably, one of the biggest advantages in phage therapy is the fact that they only target harmful bacteria and therefore have less side effects than antibiotics (University of Liverpool, 2017). Phages are very specific in that they target only certain bacteria (University of Liverpool, 2017). “Each phage is specific to the type of bacteria it…

What is SIBO? SIBO is an acronym for “small intestinal bacterial overgrowth”. While bacterium is naturally present in the digestive tract, in a healthy body, the small intestine contains relatively low levels of bacteria. The large intestine contains approximately 10-100 billion bacterial organisms, and bacteria is supposed to be at its highest concentration in the colon. Compared to this number, the small intestine is relatively sterile (containing a mere 100 thousand organisms). However,…

Bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus Bacteria is a funny thing in the world of the living organisms. We, as humans, often look at bacteria as a germ or something that causes harm to our body but that is not the case. The Earth happens to widely depend on bacteria. We often forget that 99% of bacteria is good for us. We need these bacteria’s so they can occupy spaces in our body where else that 1% of bad ones will invade and make us sick. The bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, happens to be one of…

the person with TB- they kept referring to these as “superbugs.” In fact, towards the end of the video, they mention that in 1995, samples were taken from patients in Peru and it was shown that the TB bacteria had become resistant to all of the antibiotics that they used as treatment at the time.…

whether repeat bacterial vaginosis infections were because of treatment failure. According to Joesoef et al. (1999), oral metronidazole (500mg twice daily for a week) is the conventional antibiotic to treat bacterial vaginosis per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation. This antibiotic treatment is followed by U.S. military hospitals, but the efficacy has reportedly declined from 90% to 50-80% over the past three decades, and this might explain in part the high…

urinary tract. While most of the bacteria which enter your urinary tract will be expelled while you urinate, it is the fact that if some are left behind, you can get a urinary tract infection. What are the risks of a UTI? If you have been taking antibiotics for a long time, it is very likely that the bacteria which exist in your body have become resistant. As a consequence, they have developed to be very hard to get rid of completely. In other words, it is possible that your urinary tract…

Therefore, it is crucial that we find an effective method of controlling these bacteria. Previous studies have already shown that aminoglycosides such as Streptomycin are effective against S. marcescens, but it is also necessary to administer the antibiotic at certain concentrations for minimizing bacterial growth. In this experiment, we attempted to find a correlation between the susceptibility of Serratia marcescens to concentrations of Streptomycin. Using the disc diffusion method to find the…