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More than 60 percent of the use of antibiotics in the US can be attributed to the agricultural practices resulting in an increase of 18000 tons of antibiotic use yearly (Todar, 2009).... hile the annual health care cost associated with the treatment of resistant infections in the usa was estimated at over US$ 4 billion' (Smith and Coast, 2002, p.... Another factor that has increased the resistance of microbes and bacteria against the antibiotics is the increased use of antibiotics....
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Besides the Soviet Union, Poland was another major site of relevant researches, however, lack of publications in English, along with political barriers limited the use of these publications to Russian and Polish scientists till the end of cold war and the advent of the internet (Lorch, 1999).... In the modern world, bacteria are developing resistance to a wide range of antibiotics, the problem being graver in developing countries where low doses and discontinued treatment course fails to eliminate bacteria that are resistant to a low dose of antibiotics such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and dysentery-causing bacteria....
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Although the use of antibiotics is banned in Europe it is still legal to inject the low doses of these antibiotics in America and Canada.... According to the reports, two third of the cattle slaughtered daily, is being injected with steroidal growth hormones to increase the growth rate, weight and milk production by the use of some genetically engineered hormones.... Hormones are being used in farm animals to increase their weight and by the use of growth hormones they grow much faster and to a larger extent....
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Another trial called STAMINA (The South Thames trial of antibiotics in Myocardial Infarction and unstable angina) (n=325) addressed both C.... pneumoniae was conducted in usa.... On the basis of the results of ACADEMIC trial in usa, Gupta etal designed a study with 60 patients in UK.... pneumoniae to stimulate or accelerate, and antibiotics to prevent, atherosclerosis ( Anderson & Muhlestein, 2004)....
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Lab Report
The essay 'Development of antibiotics as a New Era in Disease Treatment' investigates the nature of bacteria and antibiotics, both qualitative and its quantitative aspects.... There is, therefore, always room for improvements and developing drug licensing regulations seek improvements in the comparative safety of antibiotics.... The paper also describes how antibiotics allow to neutralize or kill bacteria but 'learn' how to resist this impact....
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In this essay, indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the state-of-the-art medical practice, its implications, and the probable solution will be discussed taking a look into the history of antibiotic development and how resistance emerges.... Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in clinical practice in the usa and other parts of the world.... This paper ''Misuse and Abuse of antibiotics'' tells us that the development of drugs that can prevent and cure bacterial infections have undoubtedly contributed to human quality of life by countering an infective process and this are considered one of the major advancements of Medicine and pharmaceutical science in this era....
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The other class of antibiotics, the microbiostatic, include antibiotics that prevent the micro-organisms from multiplying by interfering with their protein production, DNA replication, and other metabolic pathways.... The author examines the causes of the development of antimicrobial resistance which includes selective pressure-survival and proliferation of resistant strains when treatment with antibiotics kills susceptible micro-organisms in a microbial population....
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Resistance to antibiotics may be considered to be an evolving process which is driven by the selective pressure of excessive use of antibiotics.... It is not only the irrational use of the drugs that cause antibiotic resistance but there are reports of the naturally occurring resistance.... In the hospital, the ICU (intensive care unit) which are crowded with debilitated patients receiving broad-spectrum antibiotics, provides the perfect environment for the emergence of antibiotic resistance Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non‐lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant....
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