Question

appearance of antibiotic resistant Bacteria is an example of

Answer 1

Bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Some bacteria have developed resistance to antibiotics that were once commonly used to treat them. For example, Staphylococcus aureus ('golden staph' or MRSA) andNeisseria gonorrhoeae (the cause ofgonorrhoea) are now almost always resistant to benzyl penicillin.


Examples of bacteria that are resistant toantibiotics include methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus (MRSA), penicillin-resistant Enterococcus, and multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which is resistant to two tuberculosis drugs, isoniazid and rifampicin.