Scientists Capture Evolution and Increasing Resistance Of Bacteria On Time Lapse Video

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"Researchers at Harvard and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology have set up what’s essentially a giant rectangular petri dish, called the "microbial evolution growth arena plate". Bacteria are then introduced at each end of the table and do what they do best: spread and multiply.

At each end of the MEGA plate, there are no antibiotics. But every several centimeters in toward the center, the scientists paint bands of antibiotics of increasing potency. Each increase of antibiotic concentration is a stressor that the bacteria (they’re just regular E. coli) have to cope with. That is, the bands of increasingly powerful antibiotics (either trimethoprim or ciprofloxacin) are provoking the bacteria to evolve, outsmarting the medicines that are designed to kill them.



Thirty percent of all antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary, a recent report in JAMA concluded. When doctors prescribe antibiotics needlessly for things like colds, they increase the opportunities for bacteria become resistant to them. "
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/8/12852924/evolution-bacteria-timelapse-video-mega-harvard

 

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it took only 11 days to overcome a 1000x cipro concentration....i dont think yall get how terrifying that is


lets put it this way you couldnt survive at that concentration.

 

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it took only 11 days to overcome a 1000x cipro concentration

yeah crazy, thats why some of those resistant staph/strep infections are so bad, and can make lightwork of your flesh.

Spoiler: MRSA infection

MMA fighter gets infection

 

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Fascinating stuff.

Doctors have really fukked up the past century by overprescribing antibiotics