Bacteria developed many ways to deactivate antibiotics to become resistant to them. This means the antibiotics do not harm the resistant bacteria anymore and they can grow and divide as before. These mechanisms can lead to major issues for our healthcare system.
Resistant bacteria by Noémie Matthey.
We use antibiotics to kill bacteria and fungi. Yet, antibiotics are produced by these microbes to ensure their own survival in the environment. But not only microbes that produce antibiotics benefit from them, but often even other organisms. Read on to find out how antibiotics can help many players.
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The players in the microbial world always interact with each other driving ecology and evolution forward. Bacteriophages thank their bacterial hosts for their production in a very special way: They protect bacteria from antibiotic attacks by forming shielding walls around the cells. While the microbial world gets more and more complex with such mechanisms, it also represents another strategy for antimicrobial resistances.
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Bacteria developed different antimicrobial resistance mechanisms to get rid of antibiotics. Here, you will learn what bacteria do with antibiotics so that they don’t harm them and what superbugs are.
Bacteria developed many ways to deactivate antibiotics to become resistant to them. This means the antibiotics do not harm the resistant bacteria anymore and they can grow and divide as before. These mechanisms can lead to major issues for our healthcare system.
Resistant bacteria by Noémie Matthey.
