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Title: Antibiotics and resistance
Description: Antibiotics and resistance this is everything you need to know about antibiotics and resistance
Description: Antibiotics and resistance this is everything you need to know about antibiotics and resistance
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Antibiotics and Resistance
Bacteria can mutate and the mutations can
cause them to be naturally more resistant to an
antibiotic
...
Susceptible bacteria are
killed by the antibiotic,
leaving just the most
However, the more resistant bacteria are still
there and can cause infection again if the
patient stops taking the antibiotics
...
If these more resistant bacteria reproduce and
spread to other people, they could cause an
infection that cannot be treated with that
antibiotic
...
The resistant bacteria
survive and reproduce,
producing a new colony
of resistant bacteria
...
a bacterium that causes wound infections and is
resistant to many antibiotics
...
When the antibiotic treatrnent
stops the resistant bacteria of these different bacteria will be left behind
...
Q2
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Why should you always finish a course of antibiotics, even if you are felling better after
taking them for a few days?
Title: Antibiotics and resistance
Description: Antibiotics and resistance this is everything you need to know about antibiotics and resistance
Description: Antibiotics and resistance this is everything you need to know about antibiotics and resistance