Antibiotic Resistance

Paper Summary:

The paper explores the growing trends in antibiotic resistance and discusses non-conventional therapies for combating bacterial infection, which include use of probiotics. The paper explains how probiotics relieve bacterial infection, inflammation and help restore the balance of healthy bacteria in the gut. The paper also reviews evidence supporting the use of probiotics in lieu of or as complementary therapy when antibiotics are used to treat certain illnesses. The paper concludes that
more research should be conducted to examine the full potential benefits of probiotic therapy for patients with all kinds of diseases. The health and survival of mankind may depend on it.

Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Literature Review
Conclusions
Appendix

From the Paper:

"The prevalence of antibiotic resistance has stimulated much interest in the use of probiotics or live microbial supplements to combat infections otherwise resistant to traditional antibiotic therapy. In recent years overuse of antibiotics have stimulated antibiotic resistant strains of disease rendering antibiotics useless in many cases (Diped, 2003).
"While the discovery of antibiotics marked a changing point in modern medicine, in recent years scientists have begun to realize that the health benefits of antibiotics may be much more short lived than initially anticipated. As such researchers are struggling to find complementary and alternative methods for treating drug resistant forms of disease that antibiotic therapy once proved sufficient for."

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