Foundations in Microbiology
Foundations in Microbiology
9th Edition
ISBN: 9780073522609
Author: Kathleen Park Talaro, Barry Chess Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12.L2, Problem 1CT
Summary Introduction

To determine:

  1. What is a better way to explain what is happening when one says that a microbe has become “immune” to a drug?
  2. A simple test one could do to determine if drug resistance was developing in a culture.

Introduction:

It is often heard that microbe has become immune to a drug. This basically means that the microbe has become resistant to a drug. Drug resistance is usually an acquired characteristic and is a challenge to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Explanation of Solution

  1. When is it said that a microbe has become immune to a drug, it means that it has developed resistance against that drug. This happens when the microbe adapts to the drug and changes its genetic makeup that confers antibiotic resistance to that microbe.
  2. The developed drug resistance in a microbial culture can be tested easily by plating and incubating the culture with antibiotic drug; the seed plate technique. The culture must be plated and antibiotics may be sprayed or put in the form of discs and incubated at the appropriate conditions. If zone of inhibition is observed around the antibiotic, it means the culture is not resistant while it there is microbial growth in the culture, it may be inferred that the culture has developed resistance to that antibiotic drug.
Conclusion

Hence, it may be concluded that, the microbes develop resistance to antibiotic drugs by adapting to it and the resistance may be tested by seed plate technique.

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