Shannon Roberts Bio 101

Self-Study Quiz: What Can We Do About Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria?
You Decide
What Can We Do About Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria?

Summarize, evaluate, and argue the validity of the data that demonstrate the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Then present a plan for reducing this problem in the future. Keep these questions in mind:
· What data supports the hypothesis that antibiotic-resistance is on the rise? What problems do you see in this data? Can you propose a way to overcome these problems
· Which methods have been successful in decreasing the number of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains? Which methods have not?
· What shortcomings or errors do these given studies have? Can you design a new study that would overcome them?
Student Deliverable:
Summarize, evaluate, and argue the validity of the data that demonstrate the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Can antibiotic resistance be over come? What can we do?Let's start with washing our hands often with soap and water this will help to prevent a disease and also the need for antibiotics. Also, while handling food such as meet make sure meat is cooked though, and the food is handled hygienically. This will help with food-borne illnesses. We need to make sure to take antibiotics only if needed. What is happening is more often than most is, we tend to go to the doctor for the mere ordinary cold. But do you really need that antibiotic? A cold is a virus antibiotic will not help cure the common cold but most of us think we will get better soon. The reason you will get worse is that your body will start to develop an antibiotic resistance. According to You Decide :what can we do about antibiotic resistant bacteria, rotating antibiotics did not even help. I have heard this term used many times from Pharmacists and doctors. But in my experience working