03 February 2008
Inaffective Antibiotics?
Swedish researchers have reported in the latest issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases that birds captured in the hyperboreal tundra carried bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. What could this mean for future health care?
The researchers think that immigrating birds passed through Southeast Asia, a region of much antibiotic resistance. These birds carried the antibiotic resistant bacteria to the tundra. This information shows that no part of the world is unaffected by this phenomenon.
1. What biological factor is causing this resistance?
2. Link to a site that deals with the effects of growing resistance to antibiotics, and write a minimum of 3 sentences about the contents of the site.
2. Link to a site that deals with the effects of growing resistance to antibiotics, and write a minimum of 3 sentences about the contents of the site.
3. Choose one of the following, and state a possible effect of the increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria. a) scientists? b) humans? c) health care?
# posted by Glucose @ 5:38 PM 
