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What if antibiotics don't work?


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Antibiotics:

  1. Antibiotics are medicines that slow down the growth of bacteria and destroy them.
  2. Antibiotics function by destroying the cell wall of bacteria or targeting the machinery of the growth of bacteria.
  3. Antibiotic resistance takes place when the bacteria grow resistant to the antibiotic.
  4. It makes the infection harder to treat.
  5. It leads to the spread of such germs.
  6. Antibiotic resistance develops when antibiotics are consumed when not required.

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