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: Received: 28 October 2023 / Approved: 30 October 2023 / Online: 30 October 2023 (09:56:48 CET)
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Sasan, L. Antibiotic Resistance in Local Bacteria Against Household Antibiotic Ointments. Preprints2023, 2023101848. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1848.v1
Sasan, L. Antibiotic Resistance in Local Bacteria Against Household Antibiotic Ointments. Preprints 2023, 2023101848. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1848.v1
Sasan, L. Antibiotic Resistance in Local Bacteria Against Household Antibiotic Ointments. Preprints2023, 2023101848. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1848.v1
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Sasan, L. (2023). Antibiotic Resistance in Local Bacteria Against Household Antibiotic Ointments. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1848.v1
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Abstract
Bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, also known as superbugs,pose a huge threat to the human population. This is because these developed resistance to antibiotics. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that fights bacteria by either killing it or preventing it from growing. Although antibiotics make the once deadly now easily treatable, they can become ineffective as bacteria develop resistance to the antibiotic, causing diseases to become potentially fatal once more. Thus, scientists are rushing to find solutions in this arms race against evolving bacteria by either evolving current antibiotics or discovering new stands to fight evolving bacteria. In order to discover whether bacteria can develop resistance to household antibiotics, a controlled experiment was conducted. This was done by growing bacteria on agar plates with antibiotic ointments applied (in dilution series) to see if antibiotic resistance could build. Theorizing that by lowering the concentration of over the counter antibiotics, resistant bacteria would be selected and my bacterial population would evolve antibiotic resistance.In conclusion of the experiment antibiotic resistance did appear as a trait, but the level of it was inconsistent across the different bacteria populations.
Biology and Life Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology
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