Sentences with phrase «as an antibiotic attacks»

As an antibiotic attacks its target, it can also kill harmless flora, the term for the billions of bacteria that live in healthy intestines.

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The antibiotic, Epimerox, targets weaknesses in bacteria that have long been exploited by viruses that attack them, known as phage, and has even been shown to protect animals from fatal infection by Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax.

This form of interference with bacterial gene regulation is also of pharmaceutical interest as it is known that pathogenic bacteria can protect themselves against attack by the immune system and the effect of antibiotics by forming biofilms, for instance on the epithelium of the respiratory system.

Lucia and John both agree that bacteria can not build up a resistance to silver nanoparticles as they can to antibiotics, because of the way the it attacks — destroying the physical structure of the cells, which kills them.

One was a Bichon named Cameo who came into the Animal Welfare League as a stray and was given very potent antibiotics that a necropsy from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign showed may have caused her death by attacking her bone marrow.