Any species of bacteria can turn into a superbug. A superbug is a strain of bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics. According to webmd.com "Every year‚ about 2 million people get sick from a superbug‚ according to the CDC. About 23‚000 die. Earlier this year‚ an outbreak of CRE (carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae) linked to contaminated medical tools sickened 11 people at two Los-Angeles area hospitals. Two people died‚ and more than 200 others may have been exposed." This has become a serious
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Mass Extinctions What is the biological significance of mass extinctions? PART A You are living in the 23rd century. All knowledge of scientific things have been hidden from the human race by evil dictators during the last 2 generations of humans. One brilliant scientist‚ Albert Einstein the 16th‚ has rebelled against the dictators. He has devised a time machine and is asking for volunteers to go back in time and bring back important scientific discoveries. Your assignment is to go back to
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with calcium chloride treatment (Mandel and Higa‚ 1970). Transformation of plasmid DNA would give the cell a nonessential gene‚ like resistance to antibiotics. Ampicillin is a toxin that causes bacterial cells to lyse by hindering cell wall synthesis. The selectable marker is the Ampicillin Resistance gene that codes beta-lactamase enzyme which breaks down the antibiotic. The transformed E. coli cells will be able to thrive in an ampicillin environment. The purpose of this experiment is to see how
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Gram negative bacteria resistant patterns are troublesome to the general public because common illnesses could suddenly become deadly. Carbapenem antibiotics are seen as a last resort. If gram-negative bacteria develop a resistance to this antibiotic‚ antibiotics could become useless in treating a super resistant strain of gram-negative bacteria. NMD-1 is one of the most resistant genes found in gram negative bacteria. If this genes is readily passed between different types of bacteria‚ widespread
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tract infection and wound infection. Due to their resistance to antibiotics there is a limit in the therapeutic options for patients with these infections (Maragakis‚ Perl‚ 2014). Molecular based strain typing by PFGE and other methods can be used to identify outbreaks of infections of A. baumanii. Due to the occurrence of infections in severely ill patients‚ the mortality rate has been high‚ ranging from 26-68% (Maragakis‚ Perl‚ 2014). Resistance mechanisms for A. baumanii have not been studied
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control program‚ education of infection control methods‚ policy and procedure formation and review‚ an employee health program‚ a resident health program‚ and monitoring of resident care practices. The program must also cover environmental review‚ antibiotic monitoring‚ product review‚ and reporting of disease to public health authorities (Goldrick‚ 1999; Friedman‚ 1999). There are three principal goals for healthcare infection control programs regardless of the setting; to protect the patient/resident
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Introduction The purpose of this experiment is to validate the effectiveness of different types of disinfectants and antibiotics on microbes. It was hypothesized that antibiotic products work better than regular products such as soap‚ hand sanitizer etc. According to the handout that was provided in this laboratory work‚ it was believed that many of the environs occupied by individuals are exposed to different types of microbes and methods of eradicating such microbes has been studied over the years
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phenotypes. Many pathogenic bacteria species are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Explain how such adaptations can develop through the process of natural selection. (Hint: Relate this example to the conditions that are necessary for natural selection to occur.) Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. It is a specific type of drug resistance. Antibiotic resistance evolves naturally via natural selection through random mutation‚ but it
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There were eight antibiotics used for this experiment; chloramphenicol (C)‚ erythromycin (E)‚ fusidic acid (FC)‚ oxacillin (OX)‚ novobiocin (NO)‚ penicillin G (PG)‚ streptomycin (S)‚ and tetracycline (T). The mode of action of Chloramphenicol is the inhibition of protein synthesis. Chloramphenicol irreversibly binds to a receptor sit on the 50S subunit of the ribosome on the bacteria that inhibits the enzyme peptidyl transferase. This inhibition results to the prevention of the transfer of amino
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Hard to find an equivalency * Epidemiologic indicators: infant mortality (or historical indicator) What is public health? * Analysis of populations * Examples- Screening in school‚ vaccines What is Global Health? * Antibiotics resistance * Women’s Health Why are they important? * Health is our human right so why would we neglect it * Ethical/moral consideration * The government should care because it’s linked to economic growth & social progress 6/24
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