Antibiotics Essay
Antibiotics are a group of drugs that act specifically on bacteria, but not other organisms such as viruses, parasites, or prions. However, some bacteria possess advanced mutation mechanisms that enable them to mutate, hence evading the methods antibiotics use to kill them. This case study emphasizes Staphylococcus aureus, and how it is able to resist antibiotics-specifically, penicillins. It also focuses on the regulations that could have been put in place