1. Why is antibiotic resistance a problem?
2. What are possible causes of antibiotic resistance?
3. What are ways that scientists have proposed to deal with the problem?
4. What are ways that ordinary people can help to keep antibiotic resistance from getting worse? Express your opinion about which of all of the suggested ways of dealing with antibiotic resistance you think are most important to pursue.
Partial help:
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR or AR) is the ability of a pathogenic microbe to develop a resistance to the effects of an antimicrobial medication. The term antibiotic resistance (AR or ABR) is a subset of AMR, as it applies to bacteria that become resistant to antibiotics. Resistant microbes are more difficult to treat, requiring higher doses, or alternative medications which may prove more toxic. These approaches may also be more expensive. Microbes resistant to multiple antimicrobials are called multidrug resistant (MDR).