SB6.e Antibiotic Resistance

What is a superbug?

• A type of fungus

• A highly contagious virus

• An antibiotic-resistant bacterium

• A genetically modified organism

How can individuals help prevent antibiotic resistance?

• Demand antibiotics from doctors

• Finish the full course of antibiotics

• Share antibiotics with others

• Take antibiotics only when feeling very sick

People are making antibiotic resistance worse by:

• Taking antibiotics only when they need them

• Not finishing the full course of prescribed antibiotics

• Not sharing antibiotics with others

• Taking antibiotics for when they have a virus

What is antibiotic resistance?

• The ability for humans to resist antibiotics.
• The ability for humans to repel bacteria. 
• The ability for bacteria to resist antibiotics.
• The ability for bacteria to become weak from antibiotics.

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What is happening because bacteria became more resistant to antibiotics.

• Bacteria are dying out.
• Humans are increasing in population.
• Antibiotics are becoming weaker.
• Bacteria are starting to multiply and grow

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How has antibiotic resistance changed over time?

• It hasn't changed at all
• Antibiotics are being made cheaply and bacteria are becoming more resistant
• Humans are buying less antibiotics and becoming weaker
• Bacteria are becoming more resistant to the antibiotics that are being perscribed

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If you take antibiotics only the resistant bacteria survive and the non-resistant bacteria die. This is an example of...

• Resistance

• Survival of the fittest

• How antibiotics work

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Antibiotic resistant bacteria can

• Survive

• Reproduce

• Pass on the resistant gene to their offspring

• All of the above

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