LIFESCI 2X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Antimicrobial Resistance, Antibiotics, Ciprofloxacin
14 Jul 2018
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One of the big problems we see now is to preserve the efficacy as much as possible. We don"t want this problem to spread more than it already has. If there is an infection, it is the bacterial pathogen that is involved not the viral one. Have all the information available before the antibiotic is prescribed. Going to be the release of materials into the ground that gives scope to antibiotic resistance. Release of bodily materials make their way into waste water treatments. Since things arent isolated we see antibiotic resistance come back to us. They improve the overall quality of the product. Us livestock producers use approx 11,200 metric tonnes of antimicrobials. We have a lot of animals that live in close proximity to one another: situations like this will favour resistance, not the ideal living conditions. After 100 days, almost all of the fish will have the resistant genes.
