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    • Some diseases can be treated with antibiotics.
    • Vaccinations allow protection against specific diseases, but the level of protection depends on the amount of people vaccinated.
    • Antibiotics close antibiotic Substance that controls the spread of bacteria in the body by killing them or stopping them reproducing.
    • Antibiotics are being overused in many ways in our world today.
    • Commonly prescribed antibiotics are becoming less effective due to a number of reasons: overuse of antibiotics failing to complete the fully prescribed course by a doctor use of antibiotics in farming.
    • These can lead to the effectiveness of antibiotics being reduced, and the incidence of antibiotic resistance close antibiotic resistance The ability of bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics.
    • Antibiotic resistance is caused by mutations in bacteria's genes.
    • Overuse of antibiotics can lead to the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
    • Antibiotics should always be taken as prescribed by a doctor, and patients should always fully complete the prescribed course of antibiotics, every time they are taken.
    • Patients who are infected with antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria should be isolated from other patients.
    • The development of new antibiotics stopped years ago, as they were hailed as the solution to a very difficult disease control problem.
    • Some limited success with new antibiotic search has occurred recently .
    • People are concerned that in the near future, some bacteria will be resistant to all known antibiotics.
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