Antibiotic resistance

Question 1

why can some strains of a bacterial disease be resistant to antibiotics?

Answer 1

the overuse of antibiotics reduces their effectivness as the bacteria can randomly mutate to produce new strains that the antibiotics are not specialised to kill

Question 2

how do some bacteria become antibiotic resistance?

Answer 2

a bacteria mutates
the antibiotic kills off the non-resistance bacteria
the resistant bacteria survives and reproduces to form a colony
the infected is still ill

Question 3

give an example of a bacterial disease that became resistant to antibiotics?

Answer 3

MRSA

Question 4

what is a superbug?

Answer 4

a strain of bacteria that has become resistance to drugs?

Question 5

how can the problem of resistance get bigger?

Answer 5

the overuse of antibiotics means there will be more resistance strands of bacteria

Question 6

what is MRSA?

Answer 6

-It stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
-its a bacteria commonly carried on the skin or nose of healthy people
-its spread among people having close contact with someone infected not through the air
-it is resistant to several antibiotics
-its causing big problems especially in hospitals as people have had operations (cuts) and a weakened immune system