Dr. Forest Arnold, Infectious Diseases Specialist at the University of Louisville Hospital, is trying to rest 1 measuring ahead of the germs that are causing life-threatening illnesses. But it’s hard — peculiarly when the germs are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
“The germs are getting smarter, together with nosotros don’t convey every bit much ammunition,” Dr. Arnold says.
Superbugs, he says, are strains of bacteria that are resistant to all antibiotics, which lowers an infected person’s direct chances for survival. “If y'all convey an infection due to a superbug that is causing a disease, at that topographic point is no treatment.”
Ironically, the deadly bacteria final result from the overuse of antibiotics. “Our parents together with grandparents over-asked for antibiotics together with wanted them for their colds,” Dr. Arnold says. “But antibiotics are for bacteria. Viruses drive colds together with mono, together with then it doesn’t create whatever skillful to process a virus alongside an antibiotic.”
Dr. Arnold, who is every bit good the Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville, says he hopes to trim down the prevalence of pneumonia. “What is overnice close beingness at UofL is that nosotros are the headquarters for a pneumonia network, together with and then the query nosotros create is non but alongside the patients from Louisville, but nosotros become people involved from all over the United States of America together with all over the world. And that is exciting to move able to operate alongside people together with encounter how pneumonia is approached inwards dissimilar countries.”
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