Chapter 18, Problem 68TQ

Summary Introduction

To review:

The reason behind the uprise of superbug and diseases—which were no longer thought of as a threat—becoming unmanageable.

Introduction:

Antibiotic resistance can be defined as the ability to resist the effects of medication by a microbe. It is applicable only to the bacteria that have developed resistance to a drug to which once it was susceptible. Resistant microbes are difficult to treat and a higher dose of medication needs to be administered.