HOW MICROBES BECOME RESISTANT TO CERTAIN DRUGS

The rapidly growing number of bacteria, para viruses,viruses and fungi becoming resistant to  an increasing range of antibiotics present another emerging public health problem. Antimicrobial resistance can develop in any type of microbe or germ. Specifically, microbes can develop resistance to specific medicines.

Drug resistance happens when microbes develop ways to survive the use of medicines meant to kill or weaken them, if a microbe is resistant to many drugs, treating the infections can become difficult or even impossible.

Additionally, someone with an infection that is resistant to a certain medicine can pass that resistant infection to another person. In this way, a hard-to-treat illness can lead to serious disability or death. A common misconception is that a person’s body becomes resistant to specific drugs,however it is microbes not people that become resistant to the drugs.

As long as anti microbial drugs are used,drug resistance will remain a challenge. By undermining the control and prevention of infectious diseases, the emergence of drug resistance is reversing advances of the previous 50 years. Many important drug choices for the treatment of common infections are becoming increasingly limited, expensive and in some cases non-existent.

Infections caused by drug resistant organisms prolong illness and if not treated in time with expensive alternative antimicrobial agents can cause death.

Additionally, if drugs cannot be replaced as they lose their effectiveness or if the emergence and spread of drug resistance cannot be limited,some diseases might become untreatable as they were in the pre-antibiotic era.

New,re-emerging and drug resultant infections place a substantial economic burden on health care systems worldwide.it is increasingly clear that in order to be strong and effective, our national and international public health systems must be both flexible and well preserved to respond to these challenges.