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How can doctors prevent further antibiotics resistance happening?
By using the antibiotics when you are really sick, not when you have a cold or something minor.
Is resistance to antibiotics permanent?
No, resistance to antibiotics is not permanent. However, once you have a resistance, that antibiotic will no longer work for specific infections.
Why should't doctores over prescribe antibiotics?
Because the organisms that the antibiotics kill (to make you better) evolve resistance to the antibiotics when they are exposed to them. This means that the more the exposure (prescribing) the faster resistance develops. Antibiotics should therefore ONLY be used when really needed and taken EXACTLY as they are meant to. Stopping a dose of antibiotics before a full course of treatment is worse than over prescribing.
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.
When bacteria are not affected by antibiotics they have?
They have resistance to the antibiotic.
What happens to bacteria over time when exposed to antibiotics frequently?
They develop resistance to antibiotics .
What is cross resistance in bacteria for two different antibiotics?
"Bacterial cross-resistance happens when the two antibiotics that are being taken have very similar actions"
Which is the plasmid that increases resistance to antibiotics?
R-plasmid
Describe one concern about the overuse of antibiotics?
resistance
What has the author M C Bryant written?
M. C. Bryant has written: 'Antibiotics and their laboratory control' -- subject- s -: Antibiotics, Drug resistance, Microbial, Testing, Microorganisms, Effect of antibiotics on, Microbial Drug Resistance
What is bacteria resistance?
It is when a certain bacteria resists a drug such as antibiotics
What is meant by cross resistance in bacteria against two different antibiotics?
when two different antibiotics are taken simultaneously againt multi bacterial infections cross resistance in the bacteria results
