Khushboo Lucknow, 300 Questions 0 Answers 0 Best Answers 343 Points View Profile Khushboo Asked: October 29, 20212021-10-29T14:46:26+05:30 2021-10-29T14:46:26+05:30In: GENERAL What is antibiotic resistance? What is antibiotic resistance? current affairshealth Share Facebook 1 Answer Recent 0 Questions 307 Answers 60 Best Answers 0 Points View Profile [Deleted User] 2021-10-29T14:56:04+05:30Added an answer on October 29, 2021 at 2:56 pm Drug-Resistant Infections: The silent pandemic Context: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi. What is antibiotic resistance? Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in response to the use of these medicines. Bacteria, not humans or animals, become antibiotic-resistant. The misuse and overuse of antibiotics have the potential to contribute to the development of AMR globally. Evolution of Bacteria. Exposure to antibiotics puts stress on bacteria and, like other living organisms, they defend themselves. This allows them to change quickly, readily obtaining the ability to make proteins and other molecules that block the antibiotic’s effect. However, as we use ever stronger and more diverse antibiotics, new and more powerful bacterial defense options have evolved, rendering some bacteria resistant to almost everything – the ultimate outcome being untreatable superbugs. Antimicrobial-resistant organisms are found in people, animals, food, plants, and the environment (in water, soil, and air). They can spread from person to person or between people and animals, including from food of animal origin. The main drivers of antimicrobial resistance include the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials; lack of access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) for both humans and animals; poor infection and disease prevention and control in healthcare facilities and farms; poor access to quality, affordable medicines, vaccines and diagnostics 1 Reply Share Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on WhatsApp Leave an answerCancel replyYou must login or register to add a new answer. Related Questions What is Pathalgadi? What is Bodo Accord?
Drug-Resistant Infections: The silent pandemic
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi.
What is antibiotic resistance?
Evolution of Bacteria.