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  2. Prescription drug overuse - Wikipedia

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    Antibiotics are prescribed to treat bacterial infections, such as urinary tract infections and E. Coli. Some common antibiotics include penicillins, amoxicillin, and tetracycline. Antibiotics do not work on viruses as viruses do not have the structure that antibiotics act on. [28] Antibiotic resistance shown in the right Petri dish.

  3. Antibiotic misuse - Wikipedia

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    Swimmer's ear should be treated with antibiotic eardrops, not oral antibiotics. [14] Sinusitis should not be treated with antibiotics because it is usually caused by a virus, and even when it is caused by a bacterium, antibiotics are not indicated except in atypical circumstances as it usually resolves without treatment. [15] Viral ...

  4. Drug resistance - Wikipedia

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    In viruses, an equivalent "cost" is genomic complexity. The high metabolic cost means that, in the absence of antibiotics, a resistant pathogen will have decreased evolutionary fitness as compared to susceptible pathogens. [36] This is one of the reasons drug resistance adaptations are rarely seen in environments where antibiotics are absent.

  5. Multiple drug resistance - Wikipedia

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    It is necessary to develop new antibiotics over time since the selection of resistant bacteria cannot be prevented completely. This means with every application of a specific antibiotic, the survival of a few bacteria which already have a resistance gene against the substance is promoted, and the concerning bacterial population amplifies.

  6. What everyone should know about antibiotics, according ... - AOL

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    Antibiotics are some of the most powerful tools in medicine. They’re prescribed to treat a variety of infections caused by bacteria, such as urinary tract infections, most ear infections, strep ...

  7. ESKAPE - Wikipedia

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    ESKAPE is an acronym comprising the scientific names of six highly virulent and antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens including: Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp. [1] The acronym is sometimes extended to ESKAPEE to include Escherichia coli. [2]

  8. Antimicrobial resistance - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, global deaths attributable to AMR numbered 1.27 million in 2019. That same year, AMR may have contributed to 5 million deaths and one in five people who died due to AMR were children under five years old. [17] In 2018, WHO considered antibiotic resistance to be one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development ...

  9. Drug of last resort - Wikipedia

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    One of the most commonly known examples of both antimicrobial resistance and the relationship to the classification of a drug of last resort is the emergence of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (sometimes also referred to as multiple-drug resistant S. aureus due to resistance to non-penicillin antibiotics that some strains of S. aureus have shown ...