| Since the invention of the microscope, we have | | | | Some newer antibiotics are produced artificially in |
| realized that in the air that we breed, on the sheets | | | | chemical laboratories, using different biochemical |
| that covers our beds, on the food that we eat, on | | | | processes. |
| our skin and evenly inside our bodies lives tiny little | | | | Antibiotics must be used only with a doctor's |
| creatures, measuring a few micrones, called bacteria. | | | | prescription, where the dosage and duration of the |
| The majority of the bacteria species that surround | | | | antibiotic treatment are specified. The following of |
| us are friendly, living in mutualism with human beings. | | | | the prescription and the completion of the entire |
| Other (a small number of bacteria species) are | | | | antibiotic course is extremely important. Not fallowing |
| pathogenes, living as parasites on/in other living | | | | the doctor prescription facilitates the bacterial |
| creatures (including humans). Pathogenic bacteria are | | | | populations to become more and more antibiotic |
| a major cause of human death and disease, causing | | | | resistant. Inappropriate antibiotic treatment (like the |
| infection such as tetanus, typhoid fever, syphilis, | | | | use of antibiotics to treat viral infections such as the |
| leprosy, diphtheria, cholera, foodborne illness and | | | | common cold - that have no effect because the |
| tuberculosis. | | | | antibiotics doesn't kill viruses) is another form of |
| Tuberculosis is, in present, the most common | | | | antibiotic misuse. |
| bacterial disease. It is caused by the bacterium | | | | So, I hope I've cleared the fact that people |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This disease kills every | | | | contribute on a large scale to the development of |
| year about 2 million people, mostly in Third World | | | | antibiotic resistance of the infecting bacteria. The |
| Countries (more exactly in the sub-Saharan- Africa). | | | | antibiotic resistance has become a serious problem on |
| Other globally spread diseases are pneumonia (caused | | | | the entire Globe, not only in developed countries, but |
| by bacteria species such as Streptococcus and | | | | also in the undeveloped ones. Because the rate of |
| Pseudomonas) and foodborne illnesses (caused by | | | | the antibiotic resistance is so high, low-cost antibiotics |
| bacteria species such as Shigella, Campylobacter and | | | | are useless for treating the common bacteria |
| Salmonella). | | | | infections. This leads to more frequent use of newer |
| Worldwide, infections produced by bacteria are | | | | and expensive artificial antibiotics, witch in turn leads |
| treated with substances called antibiotics. Exist 2 | | | | to the rise of resistance these compounds to. |
| classes of antibiotics: bacteriocidal (witch kill the | | | | After you have read this article, you should think |
| bacteria) and bacteriostatic (witch prevent the | | | | twice when you may use antibiotics treatment and |
| bacterial growth). The antibiotics are produced | | | | when you may not, and also go to your doctor for |
| nowadays on a large scale using usually aerobic | | | | the prescription and fallow it. Do not use antibiotics |
| fermentation of different kind of microorganisms. | | | | when you don't need it! |