BACTERIA

WHAT IS
BACTERIA?
BACTERIA ARE MICROSCOPIC, SINGLE-CELLED ORGANISMS THAT
EXIST IN THEIR MILLIONS, IN EVERY ENVIRONMENT, BOTH INSIDE AND
OUTSIDE OTHER ORGANISMS.

CHARACTERISTICS

1) UNICELLULAR ORGANISM.
2) THEY DON'T HAVE
ORGANELLES.
3) THEY HAVE A CELL WALL.
4) THEIR GENETIC MATERIAL IS
SPREAD IN CYTOPLASM.
5) THEY DIVIDE BY BINARY
FISSION.
6) THEY HAVE AN EXTRA
DNA(PLASMID).

WHAT DO BACTERIA CAUSE? TREATMENT

ANTIBIOTICS ARE USED TO TREAT OR PREVENT SOME

1) FOOD POISONING TYPES OF BACTERIAL INFECTION. THEY KILL BACTERIA
OR PREVENT THEM FROM REPRODUCING AND
2) SOME SKIN, EAR OR SINUS SPREADING.
INFECTIONS.
3) SOME SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED
INFECTIONS
4) BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA.
5) MOST URINARY TRACT
INFECTIONS

WHEN YOU TAKE ANTIBIOTICS, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS

CAREFULLY. EACH TIME YOU TAKE ANTIBIOTICS, YOU INCREASE THE
CHANCES THAT BACTERIA IN YOUR BODY WILL LEARN TO RESIST
THEM CAUSING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE. LATER, YOU COULD GET
OR SPREAD AN INFECTION THAT THOSE ANTIBIOTICS CANNOT CURE.

THE FUTURE!
ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST THREATS TO GLOBAL
HEALTH, FOOD SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENT TODAY.
A GROWING NUMBER OF INFECTIONS – SUCH AS PNEUMONIA,
TUBERCULOSIS, AND SALMONELLOSIS – ARE BECOMING HARDER TO
TREAT AS THE ANTIBIOTICS USED TO TREAT THEM BECOME LESS
EFFECTIVE.