How did Antibiotic Resistance become so prevalent over the last 80 years?

Antibiotic resistance threatens to take away a medical breakthrough putting us back into difficult times as a species when approaching infection. How did it get this way and what sort of steps are we taking to mitigate or atleast slow the spread of resistance. lets talk about that in this episode!

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[Roanokereviews]

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[elecspark]

Can you talk about the good bacteria? I have a feeling the good bacteria that our bodies use have a need to battle the bad bacteria. Like prey not being hunted by predators resulting in their sources diminishing until extinction. Idk it's been too long since I've played the biology game.

[praetorianrex]

I have a question; what if an animal were to develop a symbiotic relationship with a type of extremophile in the body?

[coolguynolan]

Oh god Roan's soothing voice with relaxing music. I'm not sure I'll be able to get through a whole video without falling asleep.

[arturbalakhnin]

Thanks I did know close to all what you said but not that some bacteria are becoming non resistant over time it is good to know that we are not screwed.

[iguy]

Love the video, this channel and Roanoke gaming are amazing and have taught me a lot of interesting things or provided info on topics I never thought about!

[jimezsmoots]

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[sly.the.artist]

you look like you sounded on roanoke and im so happy. so friendly, thanks

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[FrostBytePhantom]

This video takes me back to my AP Bio class when we did our lab on bacteria and their resistances.
We took some form E. Coli (I don't remember what strand but I remember my teacher said it was non-infectious) and we put one swab of the E. Coli on a petri dish with no antibiotics, one on a dish with antibiotics, another swab with DNA from a photofluorescent jellyfish on a dish with antibiotics and another swab but this one had the jellyfish DNA and an antibiotic resistant bit of code in with it.
Long story short it happened as expected, the resistant bacteria and the control group stayed around and the others died off. Kinda a fun experiment.

This is also why I don't really go to doctors anymore for minor illnesses, even when I go my GP hesitates to give antibiotics.

[biggsydaboss]

A couple of things. Widespread use of antibiotics in livestock farming also contributed to bacterial resistance to antibiotics.

Also the research in to bacteriophages looks promising, so far.

Just wanted to add this. I hope you don't mind.

[IronOger]

I don't know how better to reach out and ask this. Could you possibly look into covering the body horror of "Bite" 2015 and "Afflicted" 2013?

[thefactory]

I do genuinely think drug rotations can go a long way in fighting disease (now if only we can convince the masses)

[guiltyspanxs]

I like the rambling 😂 i love how sciency you are and how fun you always seem to make it

[chadg]

Enjoy your channels!
Where is the understanding of the effects of the antibiotics that we give our farm animals?

[dustinsterling]

I have nothing witty to say or cool little tidbit of info to add, but the A L G O R I T H M demands I speak

[SnlDrako]

Antibiotic rotation is a sound strategy, but the details and kinks in it definitely needs to be thought before it spirals out of control.

[seanhall]

If you haven't already, could you do a video covering bacteriophages and their use on antibiotic resistant bacteria?

[DavidConnerCodeaholic]

Haven’t watched yet, but it was factory farming that bred antibiotic resistance. Animals held in close quarters who would injure themselves when moving eventually needed fairly constant antibiotic doses which were given to all animals. Add in a constant, but low-probability staph infection persisting in chicken, pork or beef and you have what is required for another low-probability horizontal gene transfer event. Boom, MRSA escapes and is now in the human population.

What I would like to know is whether people who have had MRSA staph infections are more likely to need antibiotic treatments from the start? Do people who have general staph infections ever cleans 100% of the bacteria or do their bodies act as staph repositories? (Sort of like the pangolin repository theory for Covid)

[ticciseb]

Hey Roanoke I doubt your going to see this but if you do I was wondering if you could cover the covid-19 vaccine and how it works on this channel, i think i would be a great video for you to cover because of your background in microbiology and human physiology I also think there are people who maybe dont understand how a vaccine is made or the reasons behind the speed of the development of the covid-19 vaccine vs other vaccines