Basics
Single-celled organisms found everywhere.
What are bacteria?
This form of antibiotic-resistant TB bacteria takes up to two years of multidrug treatment to be cured
What is Mycobacterium Tuberculosis?
A global campaign held each November with the theme: “Antibiotics: Handle with Care.”
What is World Antibiotic Awareness Week?
Just like preventing colds, it is always a good idea to do this.
What is washing your hands?
Drugs that either kill bacteria or inhibit their growth.
What are antibiotics?
This pathogen, resistant to methicillin, is usually found in the skin and nose of a healthy person but can cause skin infections to wounds and even pneumonia.
What is Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus?
A globalised system of standardized approaches to collection, analysis and sharing of data related to antimicrobial resistance.
What is The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS)?
Antibiotics should only be given to food-producing animals for health reasons, not to do this.
What is promote growth?
This occurs when bacteria develop the ability to defeat drugs designed to kill them.
What is antimicrobial resistance?
This antibiotic-resistant bacteria can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility.
What is Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Gonorrhea)?
A joint initiative between the World Health Organisation and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative to support research and development against antimicrobial resistance.
What is Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP)?
Bacteria are spread through the consumption of these.
What is food-producing animals?
They discovered the antibiotic, penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This bacteria can cause damage to the intestinal cells and inflammation in the guts resulting in diarrhea and abdominal pain.
What is clostridium difficile?
A group to improve the coordination between different organizations to provide effective action against antimicrobial resistance.
What is the Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance?
This organization regulates antibiotics.
What is the FDA?
The name of the antibiotic introduced in 2010.
What is ceftaroline?
This bacteria is resistant to the antibiotic carbapenem and found in digestive tracts that can cause food poisoning and gastroenteritis if it comes from contaminated food
What is Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae?
5 strategic objectives that include spreading awareness of antimicrobial resistance and furthering research created by the World Health Organization.
What is the “Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance"?
This kind of soap contributes to antibiotic resistance.
What is antibacterial soap?