Antibiotic Resistance

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Antibiotic resistance is a widely speculated on topic that has serious consequences in the modern day and age. This paper is a high level exploration discussing how antibiotic resistance cannot be prevented. The paper cites current literature. Statistics on antibiotic prescribing patterns relative to effectiveness of the drug are also explored in the paper.

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"According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (2001 as cited by MacKay, 2003), over 235 million prescriptions were written, dispensed and consumed. The CDC estimated that as many as 50% of them were written unnecessarily for viral infections where antibiotics would be of no value (2001 as cited by MacKay, 2003). MacKay (2003) states that it is precisely due to this type of overuse that is resulting not in overkill but under kill: antibiotic resistance. When penicillin was found to inhibit bacterial development in 1928 (Plonczynski & Plonczynski, 2005) it was considered a miracle given that infectious diseases were considered the leading cause of death at that time (Armstrong, Conn & Pinner, 1999 as cite by Plonczynski & Plonczynski, 2005). Penicillin then came into production and was released into the mainstream in the late 1940s."

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