When we are infected with bacteria our body will try to get rid of it because it is foreign material in our bodies. Usually our body's immune system will send some cells to find and kill the bacteria. This method of taking care of bacteria usually works but sometimes it doesn't. If our immune system can't kill the bacteria fast enough, it becomes kind of a serious bacterial infection. In a bacterial infection, the bacteria reproduces itself faster than our immune system can kill them. Unlike viruses, the bacteria reproduce outside of our own cells. They don't use the host as a means of reproducing. When our immune systems can't kill these bacteria, we use antibiotics to give us a helping hand. Antibiotics are chemical drugs that kill bacteria for us. For some reason antibiotic drugs aren't exactly working as well as they used to. Bacterial resistance is becoming a problem that scientists will eventually have to solve before bacteria become immune to our antibiotics. Since the bacteria resisting our antibiotics, it is getting tougher to kill the bacteria. Bacterial resistance is caused mainly by the misuse of antibiotics. If bacteria keep on becoming resistant to the antibiotics there will be a huge problem of to cure bacteria if our body can't respond to the bacteria and get rid of it without the use of antibiotics. Our body will still be able to respond to the bacteria if they reproduce slower than our immune system can catch them and we will become susceptible to to the bacteria that have developed a resistance to the antibiotics.
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