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What is it important to prevent antibiotic resistance?

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  • 2 years ago
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    Once an antibiotic is no longer capable of fighting diseases, then another type of medicine may not be available, and a person will suffer.

  • 2 years ago

    Antibiotics are used against bacterial infections.

    Many bacteria reproduce in as few as twenty minutes and continuously

    during there lifespan. (given ideal conditions of nutrients, temperature,

    atmosphere, and life support two invisible bacteria could have off spring

    reaching the mass and size of the moon in one week).

    Mutations occur in each generation which favor the survival

    of the most drug resistant off spring. If an antibiotic is administered at insufficient

    strength or duration, the later generations will develop immunity just

    as vaccines produce immunity in humans.

    The result is antibiotic resistant bacteria many forms of which now exist.

  • 2 years ago

    To ensure that you continue to take the prescribed antibiotic until all the tablets are finished AND NOT to stop taking them as soon as the condition has cleared meaning that some may be left over. Complete the course of tablets. If you do not complete the course there is the possibility that you fail to eradicate all the bugs and some may then mutate into a new strain that is resistant to that same antibiotic and so that antibiotic now becomes in effective. You are then just a few steps away from catching a super bugs that has become resistant to all but one or two remaining antibiotics and once those antibiotics gain become ineffective you have no way of fighting that particular infection.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    People get used to antibiotics and their body will stop responding to them. People will die.

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    2 years ago

    So, people do not die from what used to be easily treated/prevented illness.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Stop taking antibiotic for viral infections.

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