Science of Resistance — ALLIANCE FOR THE PRUDENT USE OF ANTIBIOTICS

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• Author: apua.org
• Title: Science of Resistance — ALLIANCE FOR THE PRUDENT USE OF ANTIBIOTICS
• Reference: https://apua.org/science-of-resistance
• Category: #article

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Highlights

• The Role of Bacteria — Updated on 2022-10-29 13:37:15 — Group: #School

• occupy ecological niches — Updated on 2022-10-29 13:37:20 — Group: #School

• They also help our digestion to function effectively and stimulate the development of a healthy immune system — Updated on 2022-10-29 13:37:23 — Group: #School

• bacteria have evolved a number of strategies to coexist peacefully, including the capacity to produce antibiotics to ward off competitors — Updated on 2022-10-29 13:44:40 — Group: #School

• large scale human uses of antibiotics because these substances kill off antibiotic susceptible bacteria, and thus create favourable environments for the overgrowth of resistant strains — Updated on 2022-10-29 13:45:15 — Group: #School

• resistant strains of both harmful and harmless bacteria are replacing antibiotic susceptible bacteria — Updated on 2022-10-29 13:45:26 — Group: #School

• harmless bacteria with resistance genes can transfer these genes to pathogenic bacteria that enter the same environment — Updated on 2022-10-29 13:47:05 — Group: #School

  • Annotation: This happens through Plasmids.

• as resistant strains become more widespread due to natural and inevitable evolutionary adjustments, antibiotics will cease to be the effective tool they have been for physicians and patients to control infectious diseases. — Updated on 2022-10-29 13:48:33 — Group: #School

  • Annotation: Antibiotics are really just delaying the impact of bacteria. When they do become resistant through or evolve it will be more explosive the more we use it.

• Antibiotics kill more than the disease-causing bacteria to which they are directed. They kill any other susceptible bacteria. Once the ecosystem is cleared of susceptible bacteria, resistant bacteria can multiply and dominate the environment due to lack of competition — Updated on 2022-10-29 13:48:49 — Group: #School