LIFESCI 2X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Chemotherapy, Molecular Modification, Malaria
14 Jul 2018
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Monday march 26, 2018: antibiotic resistance as a public health issue. Brings back the potential for pathogens and their impact on mortality. Bacteria that were targeted weren"t able to grow. The sensitive bacteria are more resistant to antibiotics as you can see here. Those bacteria are not going to be sensitive. This has large implications in terms of public health. Viruses that are non toxic to the host, used as part of chemotherapy. They are going to be having different functionalities. Pretty much every step of our cell functioning can be affected by this. Grouped by their chemical structures, sensitive to ph levels. We have a series of compounds that are interfering with dna polymerases: the emergence of antibiotic. Several changes in the resistance since the 1920s. Another class of antibiotics was found around the same time. Pencillin was discovered in the 1940s: started to be used in the second world war. This is an ideal setting to acquire infections.
