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What are examples of antibiotic resistance?


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Antibiotic resistance:

  1. Antibiotic resistance is found in bacteria.
  2. Antibiotics are chemical substances that kill bacteria via various methods.
  3. It is the process by which the bacterial organisms naturally evolve to be immune to a specific antibiotic.
  4. Superbugs are specific strains of bacteria, fungi, or other pathogens which accelerate the process of antibiotics upon the misuse of the antibiotics.
  5. Examples of antibiotic-resistant bacteria are, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, and multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB), etc.

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