Swapping of essential compounds by these Staphylococcus aureus bacteria helps them thrive in the presence of antibiotics.
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Mina
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This is a very interesting article on how many bacterium are starting to be able to resist antibiotics. The article describes an experiment conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. During this experiment, these people took samples of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.Their studies show that harmful bacterium are able to "trade" among themselves; one bacterium has something the other needs, they switch. More studies show that disease bacteria are also able to steal the essentials from the good bacteria in your body. This allows bacterium to reproduce and mutate quickly. Mutations immunize the reproductions to common antibiotics.
I could keep talking about this for a very long time, since this article taught me so much. I think this is an interesting and informative article and rate it 10 out of 10.
I think that this was interesting. We all know that there are bacterial mutations. However, it is amazing that bacteria can actually trade properties with each other so that the other gets something they don't have and vice versa. When they work together like this, they can protect themselves from antibiotics even better. All in all, I think this article was very interesting.
I think that this article is awesome. We know that bacteria can share DNA, but the fact that they can help each other fight, is scary if you think about it. This process could cause large numbers of bacteria to spread a mutation very quickly.
It's weird how bacteria can sort of in a way "communicate" and give their genetic DNA to another bacteria, and just reproduce like that. And "staph". You think, oh, it's just staph (if you don't originally know what it is). But then, you go: life threatening. Oh. affecting blood, bone or other tissues? Infections often affect people who play contact sports? Oh. Wow. When you hear that traits of the bacteria evolve when they are exposed to the same types of antibiotics for decades, you go: Oh. We absolutely NEED new antibiotics. And, if you search up antibiotics, there are a lot. As time goes by, we would need to keep making/trying out different antibiotics, or else you'll get germs, germs, germs...
It is very interesting how bacteria can "communicate" by trading DNA with each other. These can cause the bacteria to be stronger against the antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance is a huge problem that might eventually wipe out the world population. Our antibiotics most likely can't keep up with the bacterial mutations, so we have to rely on some other way to protect ourselves. I know that antibiotics target parts of bacteria that they have but our cells don't have, but I wonder if all types of bacteria share a common part that can be targeted no matter what mutations occur.
5 comments:
This is a very interesting article on how many bacterium are starting to be able to resist antibiotics. The article describes an experiment conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. During this experiment, these people took samples of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.Their studies show that harmful bacterium are able to "trade" among themselves; one bacterium has something the other needs, they switch. More studies show that disease bacteria are also able to steal the essentials from the good bacteria in your body. This allows bacterium to reproduce and mutate quickly. Mutations immunize the reproductions to common antibiotics.
I could keep talking about this for a very long time, since this article taught me so much. I think this is an interesting and informative article and rate it 10 out of 10.
I think that this was interesting. We all know that there are bacterial mutations. However, it is amazing that bacteria can actually trade properties with each other so that the other gets something they don't have and vice versa. When they work together like this, they can protect themselves from antibiotics even better. All in all, I think this article was very interesting.
I think that this article is awesome. We know that bacteria can share DNA, but the fact that they can help each other fight, is scary if you think about it. This process could cause large numbers of bacteria to spread a mutation very quickly.
It's weird how bacteria can sort of in a way "communicate" and give their genetic DNA to another bacteria, and just reproduce like that. And "staph". You think, oh, it's just staph (if you don't originally know what it is). But then, you go: life threatening. Oh. affecting blood, bone or other tissues? Infections often affect people who play contact sports? Oh. Wow. When you hear that traits of the bacteria evolve when they are exposed to the same types of antibiotics for decades, you go: Oh. We absolutely NEED new antibiotics. And, if you search up antibiotics, there are a lot. As time goes by, we would need to keep making/trying out different antibiotics, or else you'll get germs, germs, germs...
It is very interesting how bacteria can "communicate" by trading DNA with each other. These can cause the bacteria to be stronger against the antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance is a huge problem that might eventually wipe out the world population. Our antibiotics most likely can't keep up with the bacterial mutations, so we have to rely on some other way to protect ourselves. I know that antibiotics target parts of bacteria that they have but our cells don't have, but I wonder if all types of bacteria share a common part that can be targeted no matter what mutations occur.
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