A recent study discovered that bacterial population can then evolve resistance 20 times faster than normal after evolving a dormancy mechanism.
Viruses, just like humans, also makes decisions. However, researchers believe that the understanding of how they do so could lead to better treatments for some diseases.
Pregnant women taking antibiotics might damage their gut bacteria, thereby disturbing the immune system. A recent research proved that unborn babies develop a high risk of pneumonia when pregnant mothers intake antibiotics.
A new drug is effective enough to tear apart the bacteria and save patients from antibiotic resistance. With this considerable improvement in community health is expected.
A woman from Washoe County died after being infected by superbugs, a multidrug-resistant bacteria. Health experts and scientists fears the spread of drug resistant infection.
Antibiotic can’t be considered as the ultimate resort to treat infections as modern medical inventions have failed to tame the antibiotic resistant bacteria.
The growing resistance in bacteria against antibiotics is an international emergency, which has affected almost every country on the face of the earth. If left unchecked, it has quite a potential to produce dreadful results.
With a blood test that can distinguish viral from bacterial infections, inappropriate use of antibiotics can be controlled.
