What is a superbug?
Superbug is a bacterium that has developed resistance to multiple antibiotics. Also known as multi -resistant bacteria, Superbugs are the main problem in the community of public health around the world, as they represent a serious threat to patients, especially hospitalized patients and patients with an endangered immune system. These bacteria are also interesting for pharmaceutical companies because they are the driving force to develop new classes of antibiotics. When antibiotics are introduced into the body in an attempt to erad bacteria, these drugs are often highly effective in killing bacteria, but several bacteria usually grow. In individuals who are relatively healthy, the immune system can kill these bacteria, but in others bacteria multiply and spread and pass on a gene for resistance to a specific antibiotic.
Resistance to one antibiotic is not a very unusual community due to the exchange of genetic material between bacteria. However, when a bacterium becomes a multi -resistant, it can become a serious PRrounded because it can go through multi -resistant genes and create a superbug. The treatment of superbugs is demanding because it is necessary to either cultivate bacteria to see which antibiotic can be used against them or use multiple antibiotics courses in an effort to erase them and hope that the use of multiple antibiotics does not actually create more antibiotic resistance.
Some infamous superbugs include bacteria in Streptococcus and Enterococcus together with Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile . These superbugs are commonly observed in a hospital environment because hospitals are an ideal breeding for multi -resistant bacteria, between all antibiotics used in hospital media and all patients vulnerable to bacterial colonization. Drug resistance has led many hospitals to adopt strict sterilization and hygienic policies toReducing the risk of passing organisms resistant to drugs between patients.
The greatest concern about the superbug is the development of bacteria, which would be able to resist all antibiotics on the market, which effectively prevents erades. Treatment of patients with superbug infections is complicated by the costs of antibiotics, health problems with an individual for each patient, the availability of drugs and difficulty to get patients to adhere to antibiotic regimens. The emergence of a superbug, which resisted all drugs, could be a disaster in the field of public health.