serious implications for human health. The microorganisms that were previously sensitive to antibiotic treatment are now capable of withstanding attacks by antimicrobial medicines. One of the main reasons that cause antimicrobial resistance is the misuse of antibiotics‚ which includes an inappropriate selection of antibiotic type‚ dose‚ route‚ or duration of the therapy. The widespread improper use of antibiotics for livestock growth promotion contributes the antimicrobial resistance as well. The legislation
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revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic‚ or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did." He at first called the substance "mold juice‚" and then named it "penicillin‚" after the mold that produced it. Thinking he had found an enzyme more powerful than lysozyme‚ Fleming decided to investigate further. What he found out‚ though‚ was that it was not an enzyme at all‚ but an antibiotic -- one of the first antibiotics to be discovered. Further development of the substance
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The debate of whether bacteriophages could replace antibiotics is one of the many health issues to be explored in this essay. Bacteriophages are viruses that specifically target bacteria in your body to destroy it. Many scientists believe that bacteriophages will replace antibiotics in the fight against bacterial/diseases‚ although ideal‚ scientist do not know the long term effects of using this mechanism of defense. More research is needed and thus the push for bacteriophage usage may be reluctant
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Antibiotics are used for treating human infections that are caused by specific bacteria‚ fungi‚ protozoans‚ and other large viruses. They are generally grouped with the class of microorganisms that they inhibit. Antibiotics are used to fight off infections within the human body system by inhibiting the growth of its infectious microbes. Antibiotics have been considered one of the greatest newest innovations in medicine but there is still yet to be a perfect ideal antibiotic. In this experiment six
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Antibiotic self-medication among university medical undergraduates in Northern Nigeria Joseph O. Fadare 1* and Igbiks Tamuno 2 1Department of Medicine‚ Kogi State Specialist Hospital‚ Lokoja‚ Nigeria 2Department of Pharmacology‚ Bayero University‚ Kano‚ Kano State‚ Nigeria. Accepted 20 April‚ 2011 Self-medication is becoming a common type of self-care behavior among the population of many countries. Many international studies have investigated the prevalence and nature of self-medication
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of evolution used to explain the tremendous diversity of life on Earth? Describe how variation within a population arises and how natural selection differs from artificial selection. Finally‚ describe how bacteria that become resistant to modern antibiotics is a clear example of evolution in action. The theory of evolution is used to explain the extensive diversity of life on Earth by looking at why creatures evolve. The main reason they are able to evolve is that they have a quality that helps
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Question: What antibiotics work best in preventing E. coli k12 from growing; amoxicillin‚ ampicillin‚ or ciprofloxacin? Hypothesis: If ciprofloxacin‚ an antibiotic‚ is added to petri dishes covered in live bacteria and left to sit for four to six days in an incubator at 37 degrees Celsius‚ then the petri dishes containing ciprofloxacin will have the largest zone of inhibition out of all of the other antibiotics tested because research shows that ciprofloxacin in one of the strongest antibiotic currently
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reviewed for this research have stressed the importance of prophylactic antibiotic therapy (Stefansdottir‚ et al. 2009) and that the timing of this dose being given is becoming the utmost importance; along with the importance of appropriate antibiotic being given. There is not a large study found for the need of post operative antibiotic therapy to be given‚ the studies found show that there is a question of the effect of the antibiotics after 24-48 hours post procedure. Surgical Practice (2006) reported
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Microbiology Abstract: The purpose of this lab was to use the Kirby-Bauer method to test the sensitivity of Staphylococcus epidermis of specific areas on a petri dish. The antibiotics were gentamicin‚ novobiacin‚ and penicillin. This resembled a culture and sensitivity test that is preformed at the hospital’s laboratory to find out the resistance of a microorganism. This experiment was meant to use the naked eye and a magnifying glass when necessary. Procedures: This experiment called for prepared
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Antibiotics are rapidly becoming useless and we are forced to deal with the problems of the post antibiotic era. Our current state is urgent to say the least‚ the entire CDC urgent threat list is filled with a wide range of multi-resistant bacteria. Clostridium difficile is the first on the list‚ it is gram-positive and erupts from the distribution of normal colon bacteria. The on set primarily starts by taking antibiotics‚ because Clostridium difficile is immune to nearly all antibiotics. Second
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