Posted by yxibow on September 3, 2009, at 5:49:22
In reply to Re: Antibiotic Resistance From PCN To Now » seldomseen, posted by Phillipa on September 2, 2009, at 19:53:55
> Seldom I agree too many people stop their antibiotics as soon as they start to feel well hence so many mutations of bacteria. Phillipa
Yep... that's just one of the many reasons for resistance, including other things that I have already mentioned before on the board so I won't bother, but use of antibiotics in terms of -years- also obviously contributes.
There's personal resistance as to just how effective it is along with their own immune system and community resistance which is of course the primary problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antibioticsis probably not an all-inclusive, but fairly lengthy list of antibiotics out there, a fair amount of which are in use in the US, some not any more, some in a few countries.
Penicillin V is still used for some conditions.
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