https://diler.tube/videos/watch/592d5933-4bd7-4636-addb-3a4b5afcb4fd You probably have heard of ‘antibiotic resistance’ before, but most people don’t realise that it’s actually the bacteria that become resistant to the antibiotics, not humans or animals. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that are used to treat and prevent bacterial infections, by inhibiting certain metabolic, or chemical, processes which occur inside the bacteria. They only work on bacterial infections, and are very important for public health. Antibiotic resistance happens when antibiotics cannot interrupt the bacteria life cycle successfully anymore, and so bacterial infections become harder and harder to treat. When you take a dose of antibiotics, there will be some bacteria in the population that remain unaffected by the treatment, because of their genes. These bacteria are said to be resistant - the antibiotics cannot kill them. These resistant bacteria then reproduce, passing their resistance on to their offspring. Whole new populations of bacteria are created that are unaffected by antibiotics, meaning there are bacterial infections and diseases which cannot be treated by antibiotics. It becomes very difficult to treat infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Alternative treatments are often less effective and more expensive. Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:37:54 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://diler.tube https://diler.tube/lazy-static/avatars/f58b270a-6076-478a-ad43-3888a532ecb4.png https://diler.tube/videos/watch/592d5933-4bd7-4636-addb-3a4b5afcb4fd All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://diler.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.