Brochure - What is AR bacteria - urgent care

What is antibiotic-resistant
bacteria?
Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria no longer respond to the drugs designed
to kill them. Anytime antibiotics are used, they can cause antibiotic resistance.

Each year in the
U.S., at least
2 million people
get infected with
antibiotic-resistant
bacteria. At least
Bacteria, not the
body, become
resistant to the
antibiotics designed
to kill them.

When bacteria
become resistant,
antibiotics cannot
fight them, and the
bacteria multiply.

Some resistant
bacteria can be
harder to treat and
can spread to
other people.

To learn more about antibiotic prescribing and use,
visit www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use.

23,000 people die
as a result.