Antibiotics

Impact and Threat of Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotics are one of the human races’ most profound discoveries and achievements of all time in modern medicine. It was discovered by Alexander Fleming, a bacteriologist, in 1928, when he noticed that after leaving a few petri dishes of growing bacteria on their own for a couple of days, mold had begun to grow. Around these patches of mold, he realized that there was a definitive area in which the growth of bacteria became inhibited and even…

Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to resist the effects of drugs (About Antimicrobial Resistance). It happens when the antibiotic loses its ability to control or kill bacterial growth in the human body. Even though resistance is a natural phenomenon that occurs like natural selection in bacteria, it should not be causing as much of a problem with humans as it has been increasingly through the years (General Background: About Antibiotic…). Antibiotic resistance can be naturally…

enforcement of regulations regarding antibiotic use. However, this issue is not strictly isolated to China. Nations, even ones with existing regulations, are contributing to this issue. For how serious the threat of antibiotic resistance is, it does not get the attention it deserves on a global scale. In order for this issue to be addressed, people need to be aware of it. The World Health Organization has been working to raise awareness for the overuse of antibiotics, but a stronger…

animals are administered sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics so that meat industries can profit more. Because of this, a spread of resistant diseases become more likely, bacteria develop into different forms in livestock, and humans could become resistant to antibiotics due to consuming the tampered meats. Meat industries believe that bigger is better; though their demand for quicker meat production puts not only the health of the antibiotic-ingested animals at risk, but also the health of the…

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…

our species. People have been using antibiotics for many years, but for the first time they are causing problems. Several years ago, it was discovered that some antibiotics has created strains of bacteria that are resistant to that antibiotic. One example of this is MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. This means that sick patients must find a different antibiotic or have no way to cure the illness. However, resorting to different antibiotics has compounded the issue even…

Bonnie Bassler, an American molecular biologist, once stated, “When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant” (Bassler, 2002). Bassler suggests how antibiotics can improve our livelihoods by treating health issues. However, there may be a long-term problem associated with increased usage of antibiotics, as there can be additional disease risks with the rise of…

The discovery of antibiotics greatly transformed medicine and has impacted humans as well as animals. These drugs are able to target infections that are caused by bacteria. There was a time in history when doctors would prescribe patients antibiotics for just a simple fever. For many decades now the use of antibiotics has been abused in agricultural practices, livestock, and humans. Studies have proven that the use of antibiotics has given rise to bacterial resistance. Physicians are now…

Title: Which Antibiotics Kill the Most Bacteria? Caroline Gorman April 2, 2016 HB bl. 6 Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to determine which of five common antibiotics would kill the Rhodococcus rhodochrous bacteria. Hypothesis: Out of the five tested antibiotics, doxycycline will kill the most Rhodococcus rhodochrous because it is generally used to treat mild infections. This will be tested by spreading the bacteria on agar in a Petri dish and adding a small amount of each antibiotic…

The opposing side may have arguments for the pro-antibiotic points stated. It could be argued that if there are is no connection between bacteria resistance and meats, how would one explain the article by the New York Times stating pork productions causing MRSA in Camden, Indiana (Kristof). To this statement one could argue that the MRSA strain that was found was the ST398, which is an animal version of the bacterial resistance. As stated earlier by Ebner, Assistant Professor at Purdue’s…