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Are you accelerating the evolution of bacteria by using antibiotics and antibacterial products?
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∙ 16y ago
I believe we are doing more to produce stronger and more resistent strains of bacteria by using all the available antibacterial products. The best thing to do is keep things open to fresh air, and to keep things clean with traditional soaps and cleaning matrials. We should also take every last bit of antibiotic medication prescribed. I have talked with nurses who have confessed that they have stopped antibiotics when they started to feel better. In our bug phobia not only are we creating more resistent strains of bacteria, but we're forgetting that our bodies are more than capable of handling the great majority of bacteria without help. When bacteria come along that we need to take seriously, they will be monsters of our own making.
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∙ 16y ago
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Does antibacterial sanitizer kill the Ebola virus on hands or other surfaces?
No. It is not a bacteria and it is not affected by antibiotics.
Can a viruses be cured using antibiotics?
Yes. But only by antiviral antibiotics, not antibacterial or antifungal or antiprotozoal antibiotics. Most antibiotics are antibacterial: such as penicillin, sulfa, cipro, rocephin, etc. The Herpes Simplex virus is a virus that can be attacked by an antibiotic, such as acyclovir. Just as with antibacterial antibiotics, antiviral antibiotics will become less effective over time as the viruses mutate to become more resistant. Therefore, these antibiotics should be used as judiciously as the other types of antibiotics.
What is a world example of evolution?
The development of resistance to antibiotics by bacteria is a real world example of evolution.
How do humans influence the evolution of microbes?
By changing their environment. For instance widespread use of antibiotics, particularly in low doses, results in the evolution of bacteria that are resistant to those antibiotics
What is the relation between bacteria and drug?
Your question is not that clear. However, antibacterial drugs are used to defeat the actions of infectious bacteriae. There are, however some bacteria, such as MRSA and "super-infections" which are highly resistant to antibacterial infusions. This usually calls for a "cocktail" dose of antibiotics. In the normal course of antibacterial treatments, however, most antibacterial drugs usually succeed.
How does resistance develop in bacteria?
Bacteria, like all organisms, have phenotypic variations. Some bacteria are resistant to antibacterial drugs and survive the onslaught of these drugs. They then go on to have progeny ( by fission ) that they confer this resistance on so that you have a new population of resistant bacteria.
Why does fungi inhibit the growth of bacteria?
Antibiotics, specifically, antibacterial compounds.
What effect might antibacterial soaps have on the evolution of bacteria?
Provide a selective environment where those with resistance survive and replicate and those without die off. Gives rise to resistant bacteria.
What is the difference between antibacterial and antibiotic?
antibacterials are a subtype of antibiotics. other subtypes include antifungus, and antiparasites (like worms)
How could you explain the increase of infection in hospitals by antibiotic-resistance bacterial?
Bacteria become resitant to antibiotics by evolution .
Antibiotics are used to treat viruses.?
NO! Antibiotics have no effect at all on viruses and should never be used to treat viral infections and doing so accelerates the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
What means bacteria free?
antibacterial!!
