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An Exploration of Antibiotic Sensitivity & Resistance

An Exploration of Antibiotic Sensitivity & Resistance By: Tyler Ryan I.        Introduction Understanding antibiotics is crucial to the world of medicine and biology. Antibiotics are a type of medicine used to target and kill bacterial cell infections. A growing issue of concern is that bacteria cells are becoming resistant, or unaffected, by current antibiotics. This makes bacterial infections a much more serious issue. Research has shown that overusing antibiotics is the primary cause for antibiotic resistance (Solomon Berg and Martin […]