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What does resistant or susceptible mean?
These terms refer to antibiotic sensitivities; antibiotic resistant organisms versus antibiotic susceptible organisms.
What is antibiotic resistant bacteria?
Also known as "superbugs", antibiotic resistant bacteria have evolved to a point that our usual antibiotics won't kill them. VRE and MRSA are common forms of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
The term antibiotic resistant refers to bacteria that?
survive the presence of an antibiotic
What is antibiotic resistant bacterium is?
superbug.
Why has there been a large increase of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria?
Overuse of traditional antibiotics has caused a selection of those bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic.
What is an antibiotype?
An antibiotype is a set of organisms which are resistant to a particular antibiotic.
How is antibiotic resistance observed in bacteria in light of Darwinian selection theory?
A random mutation causes one bacterium to become resistant to an antibiotic. Then all the others are killed when the antibiotic is introduced to the environment. The mutated bacterium is free to reproduce and soon many members of that species are resistant to that antibiotic.
What is the Medical term meaning superbug infection?
Antibiotic resistance is a type of drug resistance where a microorganism is able to survive exposure to an antibiotic.
With respect to the problem of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis which entity evolves?
bacterium
Does macrodantin cure trichomoniasis?
No, that bacteria is resistant to that antibiotic. You need Flagyl.
What antibiotic is good for strep throat?
Strep is resistant to antibiotics.
How might individual bacterium become resistant to an antibiotic?
it inherited the allele that made it resistant
