Drug Resistance in Microbial Pathogens

Drug Resistance in Microbial Pathogens

Introduction

In the past 60 years, antibiotics have been critical in the battle contrary to contagious infection initiated by pathogens and other microbes. Antimicrobial chemotherapy has been a premier origin for the spectacular increase of mean life expectancy in the Twentieth Century. However, disease-causing microbes that have become resistant to antibiotic pharmaceutical treatment are an expanding public wellbeing problem. Wound diseases, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, pneumonia, septicemia and childhood ear diseases are just a couple of of the infections that have become hard to heal with antibiotics.

Discussion

One part of the difficulty is that pathogens ...