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Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

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1 Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
Laurelle Anderson

2 Antibiotic resistant genes are passed from cell to cell using transfomation, conjugation, and transduction (non-reproductive ways of passing genes Evolutionary pressure from antibiotics causes gene to be preferred Antibiotic resistant TB formation How It Happened

3 Examples Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (golden staph)
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) Multi-Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Examples

4 Creates super bugs/super bacterium
Effect on People

5 http://www. betterhealth. vic. gov. au/bhcv2/bhcarticles
ia?open Bibliogarphy


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