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Doctors from the People’s Republic of China shared with the world public alarming news. In the Middle Kingdom revealed bacteria that are not afraid of colistin. This powerful antibiotic the very last generation has proven completely powerless against newly identified pathogens.
Asian experts raise concerns that similar bacteria will begin to spread across the planet and without meeting the proper resistance, provokes incurable infections, which literally will throw away humanity in the Middle Ages.
Chinese specialists have already been able to identify the MCR-1 gene, who mutated and made bacteria invulnerable to latest antibiotic. Scientists have published the results of their research in the scientific journal “Lancet Infectious Diseases”, where told that resistance to colistin was found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, causative agent of pneumonia Klebsiella and intestinal sticks. It is possible that pathogens already exist or will soon appear. other diseases that managed to mutate and which committed no antibiotic is scary.
According to the latest information, bacteria with a dangerous genome also were recorded in Malaysia and Laos. University employee Cardiff Timothy Walsh, who studied the information on this subject, reported that if MCR-1 spreads on Earth, then it is more likely just add to other genes that show resistance to modern antibiotics, and then you can safely talk about the end era of drugs that suppress the growth of living cells. If this really happen world medicine will fail help even patients with E. coli. Unfortunately, the situation exacerbated by the fact that the insidious gene is transmitted with an incredibly high speed.
Bacteria and antibiotics are known to be constantly found in state of a kind of “arms race”. It all started in 1928 with penicillin however pathogens soon mutated, and the medication extracted from bread mold became is useless. Scientists have introduced new antibiotics. True, after time bacteria again evolved and again became invulnerable to the latest drugs. Then it became clear that new antibiotics must be invented constantly, otherwise a large part of humanity will die out elementarily.
It is hoped that doctors will soon find an antibiotic that will inhibit the growth of bacteria with the MCR-1 genome. But how long this “arms race” will continue, and which one is still will be the winner? No wonder some scientists are inclined to believe that the true owners of the earth are bacteria.
