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How does antimicrobial resistance happen? Antimicrobial resistance happens when an antimicrobial drug that was effective against a microorganism is no longer resistance. When people misuse antimicrob... ial drugs, it becomes resistance to drugs that treats infections caused by microbes, parasites, viruses, and fungi (Lipsitch & Samore, 2002). 2. What is the process? When microorganisms replicate themselves and there is an exchanged between the resistant traits through mutation. 3. What can you personally do to slow the rate of antimicrobial resistance? A physician should prescribe use of antibiotics, and patients should follow the recommended doses and timeframe of use. 4. Choose a disease that shows antimicrobial resistance from this list and give a background to the resistance and discuss future concern: The disease I am choosing to write about is influenza (the Flu). “Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by the influenza virus,” (Wikipedia, para 1). “There are three different types of the flu virus, flu virus A, B, and C, and only types A and B cause widespread outbreaks,” (Nicholson et, al., 2003). Flu A is the host to aquatic birds. The virus can be transmitted to other species and manly human, and was the cause of the major human pandemic that was subdivided in different serotypes based on the antibody such as the H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, H5N1, and H1N2 (Wikipedia, para. 4). Flu B, which infects humans, becomes immune to this strain at an early age that could protect against having a pandemic. Flu C mainly infects humans, dogs, and pigs that can cause local epidemic, (Wikipedia, para. 4). “The common symptoms of the flu that usually happens two days after exposure to the virus includes, high fever, runny nose, sore throat, headache, coughing, and feeling tired,” (Wikipedia, para. 1). You can contract the virus by touching a doorknob that is contaminated by the virus and then touch your mouth or eyes. According to Nicholson et al. (2003),The future concern with the virus is that despite any advances with controlling the flu virus there will be occurrence of avian H5N1, H9N2, and H7N7 flu in human beings and the spread of these viruses reminds us how vulnerable we are to emerging pandemic, (p. 362). [Show More]

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