Essay About Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria And Antibiotic-Resistance Bacteria

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
Many studies have shown that antibiotic-resistance bacteria is on the rise. Many people are no longer able to be cured from the same antibiotics for a specific bacteria that they were once able to be cured of. If doctors were to prescribe antibiotics less often that would reduce the number of antibiotic-resistance bacteria. The body would be able to use their own defenses to fight the bacteria. Patients would not be exposed to so many antibiotics, so their bodies wouldn’t create as many resistant bacteria. With scientists creating new antibiotics, it would help the infections that need to be treated by antibiotics, especially in the patients that have the most antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The only issue there is that with a person body being exposed to more antibiotics that will allow their body to create more antibiotic-resistant bacteria to multiple antibiotics. In one study they took a control group and only gave them one antibiotic throughout their treatment. In the experimental group, they rotated antibiotics throughout the treatment. They came to the conclusion that rotating antibiotics does not reduce the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In the next study they simply reduced the number of one antibiotic prescribed. They tracked the number of resistant bacteria for five years. During the five years that were studied, they noted a decrease in the number of resistant bacteria. I believe that they should do more studies on more than just that one antibiotic. They should try that with numerous antibiotics and see what the results would be with multiple bacteria. If I were to create a new study, I would test multiple antibiotics at the same time. For each antibiotic, I would have a control group as well as an experimental group. For the control group I would prescribe the antibiotics at the first sign of an infection and track the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria for a certain period of time. For the experimental group, I would only prescribe