Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria
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For about 50 years, antibiotics have been the answer to many bacterial
infections. Antibiotics are chemical substances that are secreted by living
things. Doctors prescribed these medicines to cure many diseases. During World
War II, it treated one of the biggest killers during wartime - infecte ....
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.... the drug. Just because
the symptoms have disappeared it does not mean the disease has gone away.
Prescribed drugs should be taken until all the medicine is gone so the disease
is completely finished. If it is not, then this will just give the bacteria
some time to find a way to avoid the effects of the drug.
One antibiotic that will always have a long lasting effect in history is
penicillin. This was the first antibiotic ever to be discovered. Alexander
Fleming was the person responsibl ....
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