Outline and discuss the reasons why antibiotic resistance occurs.

Antibiotic treatment of bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance

We are focusing on antibiotic treatment of bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance

How are these linked?

For your report,would like you to evaluate the reasons for antibiotic resistance and how this can be solved.

Some areas to explore are:

i) Outline and discuss the reasons why antibiotic resistance occurs.

ii) The mechanisms that bacteria used to overcome antibiotics.

iii) Why little progress has been made post 2000 to develop new antibiotics.

iv) Strategies to overcome antibiotic resistance.

v) Issues faced if newer treatments are not developed.

Include specific examples to illustrate your points. The more you support statements with evidence from the primary literature, the more robust your points will be.

Expected word count is 2000 words (+ or – 10%).

You are free to include illustrative figures and to summarise data in tables/graphs (up to a maximum of 5).