antibiotics treat bacteria in the blood.
antibiotics treat bacteria in the blood.
how do you treat bacteria in the blood?
antibiotics
since the discovery of antibiotics, research and development (r&d) efforts have provided new drugs in time to treat bacteria that became resistant to older antibiotics, but in the 2000s there has been concern that development has slowed enough that seriously ill people may run out of treatment options. another concern is that doctors may become reluctant to perform routine surgeries because of the increased risk of harmful infection. backup treatments can have serious side-effects; for example, treatment of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis can cause deafness or psychological disability. the potential crisis at hand is the result of a marked decrease in industry r&d. poor financial investment in antibiotic research has exacerbated the situation. the pharmaceutical industry has little incentive to invest in antibiotics because of the high risk and because the potential financial returns are less likely to cover the cost of development than for other pharmaceuticals. in 2011, pfizer, one of the last major pharmaceutical companies developing new antibiotics, shut down its primary research effort, citing poor shareholder returns relative to drugs for chronic illnesses. however, small and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies are still active in antibiotic drug research.
antimicrobial resistance
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we treat bacteria as an ever-present enemy even though there are only a small number that actually cause disease, and by accident in most cases. bacteria normally do not gain anything by causing illness or death in their hosts. our illness is mostly caused by our immune system doing too great of a job in response to bacteria in our system. the strength of our response is not necessary for most cases, but remains from a primitive time.









































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the lives of a cell: notes of a biology watcher