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Antibiotic Resistance

John Pearson
Concepts of Biology
12/7/2014
Antibiotic resistance is basically when even after the use of antibiotics there are some bacteria that remains alive because it is immune to it, then that bacteria reproduces and reproduces until there is only the strongest bacteria left. Antibiotic resistance is generally a very big problem because it makes it so that bacterial infections and even diseases will eventually be very hard to nearly impossible to treat. Antibiotic resistance is almost entirely a human caused problem which could slowly be reversed over time. As we research deeper into the subject of antibiotic resistance we find there are a lot of interesting facts. First many bacterial infections …show more content…

Antibiotic resistance is generally a very big problem because it makes it so that bacterial infections and even diseases will eventually be very hard to nearly impossible to treat. Antibiotic resistance is almost entirely a human caused problem which could slowly be reversed over time. As we research deeper into the subject of antibiotic resistance we find there are a lot of interesting facts. First many bacterial infections and infectious diseases including HIV, gonorrhea, tuberculosis and many more are starting to become increasing difficult to treat using traditional antibiotics. About 90,000 patients die each year from their infections which has increased from 13, 300 deaths in 1992. People infected with resistant organisms have an increased likelihood of needing to go to the hospital and those who do will need to stay longer and might even require a more in-depth treatment. Antibiotic resistance is currently happening all over the world which causes new resistance mechanisms to form and spread everywhere. A high percentage of infections caught from hospitals are highly resistant infections are highly resistant infections. (1,

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