The term is currently used to designate either a place or a philosophy of care for persons in the last stages of life and their families. For decades there have been hospices in England, free-standing facilities unaffiliated with hospitals and autonomous in terms of professional procedures.
Antimicrobial resistance refers to the resistance of a microbial organism to a drug or an agent that was previously effective in eliminating the organism or checking its growth and multiplication. Drug resistant strains generally evolve over a period of time in nature.
Bacteria also can acquire resistance to antimicrobial agents by genetic events. such as mutation, conjugation, transformation, transduction and transposition. â¢ Mutation. Chromosomal resistance develops as a result of spontaneous mutation. in a locus that controls susceptibility to a given antimicrobial agent.