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A 7 page research paper that examines the literature on the increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The writer explores the ramifications of the problem, the causes of the problem, and proposed solutions. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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human race as a whole -- antibiotic resistant bacteria. During the first decades in which antibiotics were introduced, the rate of new drug development was such that if resistance to
a drug developed, a new antibiotic could be substituted (Shea, 2003). Over the course of the last ten to fifteen years, however, the microbes have been developing resistance faster than
scientists can formulate new antibiotics. Furthermore, some strains of pathogens have emerged that are resistant to most or virtually all antibiotic agents (Shea, 2003). The implications of this problem are
potentially catastrophic. Recent studies have shown that the drug-resistant germs are on the rise in the US, as experts anticipate a dramatic increase in the strains of a dangerous
form of Streptococcus that has developed resistance to two common antibiotics (Study shows, 2003). By the summer of 2004, experts predict that as many as 40 percent of the strains
of Strepococcus pneumoniae could be resistant to both penicillin and erythromycin (Study shows, 2003). This particular germ is responsible for thousands of cases of meningitis, sinusitis, ear infections and
pneumonia each year. Harvard School of Public Health researchers, by examining reports from eight states, where able to determine the increase in drug resistance between 1996 and 1999. During this
period, penicillin resistance rose from 21.7 percent for strep strains in 1996 to 26.6 percent in 1999 (Study shows, 2003). Reports on this problem have become so prevalent that
is appears to have fallen into the category of "old news." As far back a 1998, reports that the antibiotic vancomycin was no longer an effective treatment against Staphylococcus
bacteria received on minor news coverage when, according to Liberman and Wootan (1998), this should have sent "shudders through the medical community and the public." This is because this antibiotic
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