Write at least 4 pages on antibiotic resistance, biology homework help

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Write at least 4 pages on antibiotic resistance. Include how it arises, how to prevent it and what the consequences are. Please include a peer reviewed article as a reference to support your paper. It must be in your own words, include citations and in APA style.

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Antibiotics
These are medications used to either kill or prevent bacteria from multiplying. Antibiotics
are used for treating infections and in some cases for preventing infections especially for people
having a surgery or undergoing chemotherapy. Antibiotics can only be effective when treating
bacterial infections and not viral infections (Jethwa, 2016). It’s advisable for patients to talk to a
healthcare profession before talking any antibiotics in order to know whether their illness is
caused by bacteria or another microbe.

Antibiotic resistance
This is a situation in the medicine field that occurs when bacteria alter themselves such
that the antibiotics used to treat the bacteria either become less effective or fail work at all.
Bacteria use Resistance as a defense mechanism in order to allow them to live and continue
multiplying, even when antibiotics are present. If you happen to have an infection caused by
some resistant bacteria, usually the antibiotics that cured the previous infection may fail to work,
since the bacteria is now able to resist the treatment.

Causes antibiotic resistance
Usually, antibiotic resistance can happen naturally, but its majorly contributed by the
overuse and misuse of antibiotics in both animals and humans. This includes:
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