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ANTIBIOTICS IN CRISIS |
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Why
are more and more people today turning
to natural remedies rather than
antibiotics? |
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Most
antibiotics are designed to be lethal to
a group of pathogens. But because
of the way they work, most, if not all,
man-made antibiotics suppress the immune
system. |
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addition, the overuse of these drugs has
been responsible for empowering a host
of resistant microbes. As a
result, a whole crop of “Superbug” germs
are completely unaffected by modern
antibiotics. |
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Because
of microorganisms’ mutations in defense,
antibiotics hardly create therapeutic
effects any longer. A bacterium’s
antibiotics receptors don’t form.
Bacterial immunological genes are a
factor too. The bacteria have
returned with a vengeance because they
are moving targets. If just one in
a population of a billion develops a
random gene mutation that allows it to
survive an antibiotic attack, it passes
its immunity off to its offspring. |
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For
example, some of the microbes that first
developed immunity to penicillin did so
by altering the shape of the cell wall
target to which the drug normally
attached. |
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Over
the years the pharmaceutical companies
have responded with antibiotics.
But the microorganisms kept upping the
ante by altering their own defenses with
immunological genes. |
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The
“Superbugs” are able to cooperate with
each other to resist the antibiotics by
exchanging small self-copying loops of
DNA called plasmids. These
organisms contain “jumping genes” — bits
of DNA that pop from one microbe to
another. |
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“Bacteria
are not separate populations, but part
of a vast, interactive microbial world.”
Says Stuart Levy, M.D. of Tufts
University. |
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Bacteria
replicate at blinding speed inside the
body and can quickly pass on their
genetic armor to their offspring.
Some of these “super microbes” mutate
into a “multi drug-resistant strain.” |
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