1 A mutation occurs in the chromosome of a bacterium that is

1. A mutation occurs in the chromosome of a bacterium that is infecting a patient in a hospital. The mutation makes the cell resistant to the particular antibiotic that is being used to treat the patient. Given this scenario:

Discuss how the resistance might spread to other bacterial cells in the patient and other bacterial cells within the hospital. In your discussion, you should discuss at least 3 mechanisms that may cause the spread of the resistance.

How might these antibiotic resistance mutations be dangerous to both healthy and unhealthy individuals

Solution

Part 1 Answer

Antibiotics resistance spreads from one bacterial cell to other bacterial cells and which might effect other patients in the hospital, the spread of resistance may occur through:

1) Contaminated hands of medical stuff or physicians.

2) Patients carrying these resistant bacteria after gets realesed from the hospital might spead it at home.

3) Contaminted medical instruments/objects might also spread these resitant bacterias to other patients.

Part 2 answer:

Antibiotic resistance mostly occur due to improper use of antibiotics or repeat of same antibiotics for any kind of infection. Unnecessary prescription of antiobiotics for viral diseases knowing the fact that it will not make any difference resistance occurs. This makes huge problems to unhealthy as well as healthy individuals like:

1) For healthy patients doctors might not know that the person is resistane to a particular antibiotic and prescribes the same to patient waiting for improvement, but the condition might detoriate.

2) Due to mutation if the resistance occurs it is difficult to identify what are the various types or range of antibiotics the patient has become resistant to, so it becomes a challenge for the doctors to cure the patient.

3) For ICU or post operational patients giving antibiobiotics is a must , here due to resistance the medicine will not work and inturn might lead to other infections.

4) From an unhealthy individuals it might spread to healthy person, which is dangerous. For both, the infection will stay for longer time and might lead to complications.