SOC GEN 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antimicrobial Resistance, Safe Sex, Structural Violence
25 Apr 2020
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The social and ethical view of antibiotic resistance plan biosocial phenomenon. Ca = mandatory rules that ban nontherapeutic use of antibiotic. "sex and the superbug" birth control rising infection. Tb and social science kills more people than any other pathogenic illness most deaths occur in middle and low income. 1/3 world latent tb airborne di erent types of resistance. Mdr tb - multidrug resistant tb treated by rst line drugs. Xdr tb - extensively resistant tb (more than mdr) resistant to rst and second line drugs. Rst line = high anti-tb e cacy and low toxicity, routinely second line = low anti-tb e cacy or high toxicity or both, reserve drugs. Tdr tb - total resistant not recognized as a category resistant to all drugs rst and second one thicker cell wall more facts lower socioeconomic = more likely to die from tb and mdr tb.
