Sunday, April 24, 2011

Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic Resistance

-Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria or other microbes to resist the effect of an antibiotic

-Antibiotic resistance occur when bacteria change in some way that reduce or eliminates the effectiveness of drugs chemicals or other agents design to cure or prevent infections

-Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the world's most pressing public health problem

-If a microbes is resistance to many drugs,treating infection it causes can become difficult or even impossible.Someone infection that to resistance to a certain medicine can pass that resistance infection to another person.In this way a hard to treat illness can be spread from person to person.

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