the term drug resistance. Since it is such a growing concern, it becomes confusing as to why drug resistance is occurring and what can be done to prevent it. Because drug resistance is such a health problem, determining what it is, how these bacteria can acquire the antimicrobial agents, and the possible solutions to the resistance are the types of actions that need to be taken in order to have a better understanding of how truly powerful these drug resistant bacteria are. Drug resistance is the capability
The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program known as D.A.R.E has become a very widespread and popular program throughout the United States. The program appeals to all ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic lines, which is a large part of the reason why the DARE program has grown exponentially. The program’s basic premise was meant to introduce kids to the danger of drugs, before the drugs got to them. The implementation of the DARE program appeared to be what America needed to begin to put a dent in
scenario during a demonstration for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, and he asked all of the other kids if they wanted to smoke crack with him as well. After Nixon declared war on drugs, something needed to be done to encourage future generations to avoid the sad path of addiction. The official D.A.R.E. website states that it began in Los Angeles. Police Chief Daryl Gates and the Los Angeles Unified School District put it together in 1983 after drug use among adolescents skyrocketed. Since
D.A.R.E. Essay D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a program that teaches students the dangers of drugs. I think it is very important because there are some of those people who say stuff like “I wanna know what it feels like to be high.” and “Cigarettes make me feel more relaxed, you should try them!” D.A.R.E. explains why to not hang around those people, and how to deal with stress instead of smoking. My favorite lesson in D.A.R.E. was when we watched the “Total Disgusting Tobacco Gross
Acquired Drug Resistance for Malaria and Tuberculosis There are many serious health problems and diseases going on around the world right now. Several examples that we can give are: AIDS, HIVS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Many treatments are medicines were used to treat all these kinds of diseases, but then, many kinds of drug resistances slowly appeared. What is Drug Resistance? First, we are going to talk about what does drug resistance exactly means. Drug resistance is when the effectiveness of
Forming a Correct Conscience There are two main environments in which a correct conscience is molded. The primary environment is the home, where the family begins the shaping of a child's conscience and their ability to choose right from wrong; and, the second environment, which is just as crucial as the first, is school. From the age of five until the age of eighteen, school is a central part of a child's life. These years are the most impressionable and the most easily influenced. The educational
antibiotic is becoming a rising threat to the human health and is happening worldwide. What is antibiotics? — a chemical produced by fungi and bacteria, that inhibits with the biochemistry of bacterium fungi. Antibiotics many would say is a miracle drug, helping people to extend their life spans by altering the result of the bacterial infection. In the 1920s’ researchers speculated that the average populations life span age to be only 56 years old, now this number has increased significantly Antibiotic
Antibiotic resistance is a phenomenon in which microorganisms undergo a genetic mutation that allows them to withstand the effects of antibiotic agents designed to kill them or make them incapable of reproduction. To understand antibiotic resistance, it is important to understand what antibiotics are and the mechanisms behind these drugs that affect diseases. Antibiotics are chemical agents that specifically target certain bacterial strains and disable the bacteria by preventing their reproduction
The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Since antibiotics, such as penicillin, became widely available in the 1940s, they have been called miracle drugs. They have been able to eliminate bacteria without significantly harming the other cells of the host. Now with each passing year, bacteria that are immune to antibiotics have become more and more common. This turn of events presents us with an alarming problem. Strains of bacteria that are resistant to all prescribed antibiotics are
antibiotic-resistance genes and on average were resistant to 8 of 21 tested antibiotics (Sachs). With an average resistance rate as high as 67 percent in some of these streptomyces species, it is evident that antibiotic-resistance is a rising problem. Regardless of the countless studies proving antibiotic-resistance and articles about the subject, it is one the public knows little about. With such a history of antibiotic benefits, it is difficult to perceive the negative affects these drugs have. This
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), describes antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria or other microbes to resist the effects of antibiotic treatment. () So instead of being destroyed by the medications, the bacteria survives and continues to reproduce, resultant in new communicable diseases that even more difficult to treat. Because of this issue the CDC has instituted a campaign entitles, "Campaign to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance." The campaign focuses on four integrated strategies:
The Necessity to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance Approximately one year ago in Kentucky, a man went to sleep thinking he might have caught a flu. The next day, he is rushed to the local hospital while coughing up chunks of lung tissue; within a few hours he experiences organ failure and lips into a coma. Over the next two days, two other patients come in with the same symptoms and die almost immediately. This epidemic that swept over this small area in Kentucky was an ultra resistant strain of staph
staphylococci did not develop very strong resistance inspite of introducing it several times in culture media with vancomycin • The drug fast tracked in achieving Fda approval in 1958, which is very quick for any drug. Staph had developed a significant resistance towards penicillin based anyibiotic. This helped Vancomycin to get approval in drug market in a short span. • found in soils obtained from Borneo and India • The compound derived its name from VANQUISH • Drug of last resort. Mechanism of Action
Ever since the discovery of antibiotics in the 1920’s, treating bacterial infections in humans, and animals alike, has emerged as a revolutionary possibility. Antibiotics are drugs that are naturally produced by bacteria or fungus to defend against other bacteria via death or inhibiting reproduction (1). Since their detection, antibiotics have been diversified into many different forms and classes which are arranged by mode of action. Glycopeptides are a class of antibiotics which are composed of
So despite encouraging research and development of new anitbacterial drugs is necessary, new drugs alone are not the answer. Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) was introduced in 1987, and it works by “allowing topoisomerases to cut DNA, but not “glue” the ends back together. The result is that the bacterium can no longer replicate its DNA, keeping the bacterial population in check” (Guilfoile 2007). However, Ciprofloxacin resistance is over 30 percent in some species of bacteria. Furthermore it was concluded
. Many doctors and patients are unaware that antibiotics are designed to treat bacterial infections, not viral infections (Antibiotic resistance, N.D.). Many bacteria within our bodies are not harmful at all, and some of them actually provide health benefits. The bacteria that are harmful are disease-causing bacteria, which generate sicknesses such as strep throat, the common cold, and ear infections (Get, 2013). Viruses are smaller than bacteria and require hosts, such as plants or animals, in order
Penicillin has been considered a miracle drug by doctors ever since it was first used in 1942. It could cure nearly every disease that it was prescribed for and was the cause of a major turning point in World War 2. Yet, for the past forty years there have been bacteria strains discovered that can withstand the power of Penicillin. The mass production and misuse of penicillin has caused the miracle drug to become ineffective towards serious infections. Penicillin is a form of anti-biotic. The first
rates have escalated due to the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is a consequence of the misuse of antibiotics that give pathogenic bacteria the ability to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. Resistance occurs when bacteria change in such a way that they survive exposure to antibiotics. Resistance may not be confined to a single antibiotic, but may affect multiple antimicrobial classes. Antibiotic resistance is a major problem and everyone needs to work together to
to the antibiotic. It is believed that the first cases of antibiotic resistance were shortly after this speech. (Fleming, 1945) There are many medical professionals who believe that the rise of antibiotic resistance is a result of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics. Dr. Jim Wilde, a paediatric emergency medicine physician at the Medical College of Georgia believes that the medical profession is losing the war against resistance... ... middle of paper ... ...gests that the world is on the brink
at sub-therapeutic levels increases the likelihood of antibiotic resistance bacteria to evolve. The antibiotics kill the antibiotic sensitive bacteria, but bacteria that are resistant proliferate in the gut of the animals. When these antibiotic resistant bacteria are left to grow in the gut, they can cause infection to the animal or people that consume the animal as food (Falco, 2013, Amachawadl et. al. 2013). Antibiotic-resistance can also be conferred through horizontal gene transfer and other