Antimicrobial resistance

When you get a dangerous sickness, you take antibiotics to help treat the sickness. These antibiotics slowly destroy the disease and help your immune system. Antibiotics help treat many viruses and bacteria and are very important to humans. However, Antibiotics gradually start to lose their power against bacteria and viruses because of Antimicrobial resistance.

There are many ways how the bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics. One way is that it learns how to survive against antibiotics. For example, some strands of staphylococcus aureus, which causes from skin infections to pneumonia, is resistant to many antibiotics. Its gene creates protein again and again after it being attacked by antibiotics. This then helps the bacteria to sustain any amount of damage done by antibiotics.

The second way a bacteria can be resistant to antibiotics is by creating enzymes which destroy antibiotics. For example, some super bacteria like some strands of salmonella, are resistance towards antibiotics because they destroy antibiotics. E Coli also use somewhat the same way of resistance against antibiotics. They kick out the antibiotics by booting them out.

Antimicrobial resistance is when the bacteria slowly develops genes which help the bacteria become resilient to antibiotics. A bacteria can pass on this gene in many ways. It can give this gene to the other bacteria or teach this gene when duplicating itself. It can also pass on this gene when it dies. This gene slowly spreads between bacteria and in MRSA’s case, becomes an epidemic.

Although these viruses develop resistance against antibiotics, we can help prevent this resistance. There are two ways we can prevent the resistance. The first way and the easy way out is to just not use antibiotics. This is not such a great idea because we don't need to give up, we can do the second option.

The second way of preventing resistance is by finding resistance in viruses and then creating a anti-resistance shield for antibiotics. This can help by stopping the resistance from destroying the antibiotics. It can also help the antibiotic to fully destroy a virus. The shield will either act like a barrier for the antibiotic(so it is not destroyed) or it will act like a helper.(to defeat viruses)