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Understanding Soil Microorganisms and Antibiotics

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Understanding Soil Microorganisms and Antibiotics

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What is the emerging menace associated with antibiotics and microorganisms?

The emerging menace is drug resistance due to inappropriate use of antibiotics by general health practitioners worldwide.

Explain the urgent need mentioned in the text.

There is an urgent need to investigate indigenous soil resources with potential of antimicrobial production to produce new products with better efficacy.

Define antibiotics as described by Selman Waksman in 1941.

Antibiotics are small molecules made by a microbe that antagonize the growth of other microbes.

List five superbugs mentioned in the text.

<ol> <li>Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) 2. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 3. ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae (extended-spectrum β-lactamases) 4. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) 5. Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers