Antimicrobial Resistance Essay

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1-Introduction
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial medicine to which it was previously sensitive. AMR is one of the major problem today as well as in the past which causes the major health problem. AMR occur when antibiotics lost the ability to control the growth of microorganism so that they continue to multiply. Some bacteria are naturally resistant while the other may get this ability of resistance either by the gene mutation (which changes the genetic material of the bacteria) or by acquiring the resistance from other bacterium (by the process of conjugation which transfer the genetic material along with the coding gene resistant to antibiotics).
The discovery of the antibiotics was a significant change in the human history as the antibiotics bring change in the field of medicine in many respects and many lives have been saved. The presence of antibiotics without any negative coefficient has changed the public health and this has been the reason of countless improvement in medical care (Spellberg et al., 2008). The resistance of microorganisms have unfavorable effects on human health and the result includes the infections that may increases the chance of failure of …show more content…

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