Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become a serious problem in recent years — particularly given the high prevalence of antibiotic medication misuse or overuse.
According to the Medline Plus magazine published by the National Institutes of Health, 2 million Americans become infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria every year — with at least 23,000 of them losing their lives to untreatable bacterial infections.
Among the most well-known drug-resistant bacteria that can cause life-threatening infections are E. coli and MRSA — a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to methicillin, a semisynthetic form of penicillin typically prescribed in the treatment of staph infections.
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