Journal of Drug Metabolism & Toxicology
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Dr, Department of Chemical Sciences, Bells University of Technology,Ota, Nigeria

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• Commentary   
  A Brief Note on Drug Resistance
  Author(s): Esther Abam*
  
  The ineffectiveness of a treatment, such as an antibiotic or antineoplastic, treating a disease or condition is known as drug resistance. The phrase is used in the context of pathogen or cancer resistance that has "acquired". Antimicrobial and anticancer resistance provides a barrier to clinical care and stimulates research. Multidrug-resistant organisms are those that are resistant to multiple drugs. Antibiotic resistance arises in part as a result of medications that target just specific bacterial molecules. Any alteration in these molecules will interfere with or nullify the drug's destructive impact, resulting in antibiotic resistance. Drug, toxin, and chemical resistance are result of evolution and a reaction to the forces that each living thing faces. Individual species diffe.. View More»
  DOI: : 10.35248/2157-7609.22.13.265

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