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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.
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.
Why does an antibiotic not work the same for all bacteria?
Bacteria also do evolve. If one bacteria is mutated, and survives an attack by antibiotic, he multiplies and forms more bacteria which are more resistant against antibiotic. As days of surviving antibiotics and multiplying eventually creates a bacteria which is resistant against it.
What is the example of a microevolution?
An example of microevolution is the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria due to natural selection. Over time, bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics survive and reproduce, leading to a population of bacteria that is predominantly resistant to that antibiotic.
What is a word meaning a bacteria has adapted to antibiotics?
Resistant or resistance is when a bacteria has adapted to an antibiotic.
Does macrodantin cure trichomoniasis?
No, that bacteria is resistant to that antibiotic. You need Flagyl.
An antibiotic is effective in killing 95 percent of a population of bacteria that reproduce by the process shown below which statement best describes future generations of these bacteria?
Future generations of these bacteria are likely to have a higher proportion of individuals that are resistant to the antibiotic due to natural selection. Over time, the resistant bacteria will survive and reproduce, potentially leading to the evolution of a population that is largely resistant to the antibiotic.
How do antibiotic resistant bacteria come about?
This term is misleading. The antibiotic "selects" bacteria that are not affected by it. If a person will grow bacteria on a petri dish and add an antibiotic to it, some bacteria may live and grow. This is actually a form of natural selection. The ones that will grow are resistance to the antibiotic. They have some way of not being affected. If a person takes a colony from the plate that has this resistance and grows it on another plate and add the antibiotic, all on the plate will be resistant.
How would you isolate an antibiotic-resistant bacterium?
you can use low concentration of first line antibiotic to the media where will growth antibiotica.perobably most of bacteria will die but some of them will survive.This bacteria are resistant to antibiotics.Its important to inoculate a large amount of bacteria.
How might individual bacterium become resistant to an antibiotic?
Individual bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics through mechanisms such as mutations that prevent the antibiotic from binding to its target, acquiring resistance genes through horizontal gene transfer, or creating biofilms that protect them from the antibiotic's effects. These mechanisms allow the bacteria to survive and reproduce in the presence of the antibiotic, leading to the development of resistant bacterial populations.
What are resistant bacteria?
A property of some bacteria that have been exposed to a particular antibiotic and have "learned" how to survive in its presence.
What process has led to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria?
Evolution is process involved in it .
