When the rapid
solution become in your worst enemy
Two reports on
antibiotic resistance are released. The first one, entitled “How safe is your
ground beef?”, mentioned how frequently a food poisoning occurs for raw or undercooked
meat. Between 2003 and 2012, there were almost 80 outbreaks of E. coli O157 due to tainted beef,
sickening 1,144 people, putting 316 in the hospital, and killing five. But the
risk it´s growth, actually the use of antibiotics in farms has contributed to
the rise of antibiotic- resistance bacteria. Testing the prevalence and types
of bacteria in ground beef, there was found a lot of bacteria resistant to
antibiotic, like as: C. perfringens,
Salmonella and S. aureus.
In the second
report, entitled “CDC Grand Rounds: Getting Smart about Antibiotics” the CDC
pointing out the impact of inappropriate antibiotic use in human medicine. It´s
regular seen when people get sick use antibiotic to combat life-threatening
bacterial diseases, causing that common infections become more difficult to
treat, requiring longer time to get better, and spreading the infection. So,
antibiotic prescribing must be reduce and tracked to understand and improve
antibiotic use. Even a variety of educational campaign tries to inform to
communities about antibiotic use and resistance, this problem, actually, has no
change.
On the other
hand, there are ideas that use this information for despite the real issue. The
resistance it´s a natural process and maybe the antibiotic it´s not the best
way to get better and combat bacteria. Omar Oyarzabal take the presence of
bacteria in uncontacted indigenous population of Yanomami Amerindians in South
America to demonstrates bacteria have been evolving different resistance
mechanisms against antibiotics because these bacteria have been competing with
each other for resources in the same environment, mainly in the soil, for
thousands of years.
Finally, the
great problem is we don´t have new drugs
use it to attack this bacteria quickly,
no too fast to avoid resistance, and the time it´s primordial.
Sources:
Aporte:
Nicolina Prat (julio)
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