Really productive session this evening.
I wrote around 500 words, which is essentially all on my section about Sepsis.
Tomorrow I plan to look into another section on a bacterial illness, and then the day after this, I plan to write a section on my ideas of what strategies could be adopted against resistance.

I have got quite a lot done in my project essay, and I am now at 3000 words. I began on the 29th December, and by 30th January I had finished the section on my experiment. During February I have written about the current state of resistance, the future of antibiotics, and the methodology by which resistance is passed on. I also managed a comparative section on how the bacterial immunity to antibiotics has developed quickly in comparison to human disease resistance.
Tomorrow I am presenting my extended project in college.

Changes

Instead of just writing a scientific analysis of how resistance spreads I have decided to write it in the form of a comparison looking at how the bacteria pass on resistance compared to human immunity being passed on. I think this is important in clarifying why we have not adapted in the same way as bacteria are now.

Useful video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQhIz2LqrYA

experiment review

I have evaluated my experimental data now.
It looks like my data shows that levels in the college are higher than average (2/3 rather than 1/3) however my data is incredibly unreliable in this because only three people were sampled. I would need a much larger sample to draw any real conclusions, but that cannot be done with the resources available. This data will still be very useful to put in my essay however, as it will provide me with an opportunity to talk about levels of bacteria in different places.

I plan to write my essay in this way:
- intro
- History of Antibiotics
- What antibiotics are and when we use them
- My experiment
- Science behind reistance
- What total resistance would mean
- How we can oppose resistance now
- Conclusion

I carried out the experiment to test for S.A. in the last week of term before Christmas, with help from Dr. Rob Hawkins - my biology teacher.
Rob, Carrie and myself took swabs from our noses, and spread the bacteria in petri dishes. The plates were then incubated to allow the bacteria to grow. The next day  colonies were taken of bacteria from the petri dishes and grew them in separate petri dishes which contained mannitol salt agar.
The next  day colonies were taken from the mannitol salt plates and stained them to look at under a microscope, and the next day a catalase test was performed.
I will now be able to put my results in my essay.

- Will