What is antimicrobial?
Antimicrobial means it is capable of
killing or inhibiting the growth of
microorganisms, especially bacteria, fungi, or viruses or it controls
organisms by attacking, inactivating, or reducing the growth
of microorganisms
What is antibacterial?
Antibacterial is
an agent acting against bacteria it prevents,
kills, or reduces the growth of bacteria on organisms.
What are microbes?
Microbe is a
term for tiny creatures that individually are too small to be seen with
the unaided eye. Microbes include bacteria,
archaea, fungi, and protists.
You've probably heard of bacteria and fungi before. Archaea are
bacteria-like creatures that have some traits not found in any true
bacteria. Protists include primitive algae, amoebas, slime molds and
protozoa. We can also include
virses as a major type of microbe, though there is a debate as to
whether viruses can be considered living creatures or not. Microbes
have been around for billions of years because they are able to adapt
to the ever-changing environment.
What is drug reistance?
Drug
Resistance is a
condition in which infecting bacteria can
resist the destructive effects of drugs such as antiobotics. Drug
resistance has
become a serious public health problem, since many
disease-causing bacteria are no longer susceptible to previously
effective drug
therapy. For nearly 50 years after the first antibiotic, penicillin,
became
available in the 1940s, people took antibiotics' effectiveness against
bacterial infections for granted. By the 1960s some doctors were
predicting the
end of infectious diseases. By the 1990s, however, a “post-antibiotic
era,”
characterized by the explosion of untreatable bacterial strains, was
considered inevitable, and the rate at which bacteria were becoming
resistant
to antibiotics was catching up with the rate at which new antibiotics
were
being produced. The number of drug-resistant
bacterial
strains has increased in part because of the indiscriminate use of
antibiotics,
which have sometimes been over prescribed. Such misuse speeds the
process by
destroying bacteria that would compete with resistant strains. In
addition,
patients sometimes stop treatment when they start to feel better,
leaving a
residual population of bacteria that is likely to be more resistant to
drug
treatment. Another source of resistance is the routine use of
antibiotics in
animal feed to enhance growth, a practice that has led to resistant
strains of Escherichia
coli
(E.Coli) and Salmonella
that have been
passed on to consumers.
What
is antimicrobial reistance?
Antimicrobial resistance can develop in any type of microbe(germ). Microbes can
develop
resistance to specific medicines. A common misconception is that a
person’s
body becomes resistant to specific drugs. However, it is microbes, not
people,
that become resistant to the drugs.
*Drug resistance happens
when microbes develop ways to survive the use of medicines meant to
kill or
weaken them.
*If a microbe is resistant to
many drugs, treating the infections it causes can become difficult or
even
impossible. *Someone with an
infection
that is resistant to a certain medicine can pass that resistant
infection
to another person. In this way, a hard-to-treat illness can be spread
from
person to person. In some cases, the illness can lead to serious
disability or
even death.
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