Stopping "Superbugs"

Description

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, also called "superbugs," are so common in the United States that more than 2 million people get infected with them each year. One way antibiotic-resistant bacteria can flourish is when a patient cuts short their prescribed course of antibiotics. Model how this can happen using a large set of dice.

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computer

Publisher: Science Buddies
Last Updated: 6/14/2017

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1 Learning Standards

Aligns to NGSS.MS-LS1-3 (Supporting alignment)
Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.

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bacteria scientific modeling antibiotic resistance probaility Science
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