The usage of antibiotics is not confined to modern medicine as its traces can be found in ancient times. Hedgehogs tell us how.
who used mouldy bread to treat infected wounds, to German physician Paul Ehrlich who noted it must be possible to kill certain bacteria selectively without harming other cells.
Fleming’s discovery led to “considerable improvements in human and animal health,” a group of international scientistsThe scientists say that while antibiotic resistance in environmental bacteria is “ancient,” resistance in human pathogens is “thought to be a modern phenomenon that is driven by the clinical use of antibiotics.”bacteria that developed on the skin of hedgehogs as a result of natural evolution.
The scientists then honed in on hedgehogs. "We wanted to know," Holmes says, "what's so special about a hedgehog that means there's a lot of these resistant bacteria?" Research colleagues in Denmark went through more than 1,000 samples of bacteria from wildlife around Europe, and the genetic code-based timeline they built showed that the resistant strain came to being in European hedgehogs in the early 1800s, “long before the clinical use of antibiotics.”"The bacteria needed to be resistant because, if you want to live on the hedgehog - where there's a fungus, you have to be resistant to the antibiotics it's producing.
Recommending that people do not use antibiotics unnecessarily or demand them from their health care provider, the WHO reminds us that “Antibiotic resistance leads to longer hospital stays, higher medical costs and increased mortality.”
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