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Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): Assertion (A): Antibiotic resistance occurs naturally. Reason (R): The misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals is making antibiotics less effective. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): Assertion (A): Antibiotic resistance occurs naturally. Reason (R): The misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals is making antibiotics less effective. Select the correct answer using the codes given below. Correct Answer <span style="">Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not correct explanation of (A)</span>

The correct answer is option 2.

Key Points

  • ​Antibiotics are medicines used to prevent and treat bacterial infections.
  • Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in response to the use of these medicines.
  • The bacteria, not humans or animals, become antibiotic-resistant.
    • These bacteria may infect humans and animals, and the infections they cause are harder to treat than those caused by non-resistant bacteria.
  • Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today.
  • Antibiotic resistance can affect anyone, of any age, in any country.
  • Antibiotic resistance occurs naturally, but misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals is accelerating the process. Hence, Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not correct explanation of (A).
  • A growing list of infections such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, blood poisoning, gonorrhoea, and foodborne diseases are becoming harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat as antibiotics become less effective.​ 
  • Antibiotic resistance leads to higher medical costs, prolonged hospital stays, and increased mortality.
  • The world urgently needs to change the way it prescribes and uses antibiotics.
    • Even if new medicines are developed, without behaviour change, antibiotic resistance will remain a major threat.
    • Behaviour changes must also include actions to reduce the spread of infections through vaccination, hand washing, practising safer sex, and good food hygiene.
  • Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world.

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