Well it seems that scientists are finding an increasing number
of bacteria that is becoming antibiotic resistance. This gives scientists a challenge
in trying to create an antibiotic that can kill or disrupt bacteria from
growing. But they have found a new drug to treat bacterial infections
particularly uti’s (urinary tract infections). However this drug does not destroy
pathogenic bacteria but disarms them. This helps the useful bacteria to become
unharmed and a lower risk of development and spread of resistance of the
bacteria.
Hopefully this will be utilized in other areas of bacterial
infections and help keep other antibiotic’s from hurting other parts of the
body. Such as penicillin; penicillin causes yeast infections in most people. If
this new strategy works it will prevent those patients from getting yeast
infections and will cause them to get better faster.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140129075808.htm
This is a really cool article! One of the microbes I've used for our in-class assignments is one of the guilty "resistant" microbes. I think its a good point to make clear that the bacteria doesn't get destroyed but, "disarmed". Some of the resistant bacteria may be a part of our normal flora and actually be good for us in normal amounts!
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