Seafood spreads resistance to antibiotics 'colistin': study

New York, June 22 (IANS). American scientists have recently expressed a major concern. He said that the antibiotics used as a very important and last treatment no longer affect many cases. The reason is that some bacteria have also become resistant to this medicine (not the disease that fights against medicine). Worldwide, colistine spreads, causing the treatment options to reduce and infected people are at greater risk. Researchers at the University of Georgia have recently identified a way that spreads the genes of colistine resistance. In a new study, the microbiologist Ismat Kasem and his group examined the imported shrimp and bacteria in scallops purchased from 8 food markets in Atlanta. These foods contain bacteria in which colistine resistant genes were present. Choleistine is given only if all other medicines stop working. It is used only in very serious and deadly infections. But now this medicine cannot work many times, thereby further reducing the options of treatment and increasing the risk of people’s lives. The scientific ismat Kasem and his team also said that these resistant genes can easily spread bacteria to bacteria. These genes are part of a small DNA called plasmid, which can reach from one bacterium to another. Kasem said: “Many people do not know that most seafood eaten in the US is imported, including about 90 percent of the shrimp. They do not detect antimicrobial resistance genes.” Kasem and his group also found that these genes are part of a small DNA called plasmid, which can reach from one bacteria to another. Choleistine was started in the 1950s to treat serious infections, but its side effects such as kidney and nerve damage were closed in the US in 1980. But when the rest of the medicine is neutralized, it was reused. The World Health Organization has also included colistine in ‘very important’ medicine because it is the last treatment for very serious infections. Scientists have warned that they have found this resistant gene out of just one source, but that they have more sources, and this problem can spread further. -Ians as/