Sentences with phrase «heavy use of antibiotics»

Heavy use of antibiotics can cause resistance, which results from a small subset of a bacteria population with a random mutation that allows it to survive exposure to the chemical.

Heavy use of antibiotics in hospitals encourages the emergence of stronger and stronger bacteria.

Heavy use of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance, but researchers now speculate that antibiotics can also upset the balance of the microbial community, allowing disease to take over rather than fighting it.

Fecal microbial transplantation (FMT) has gained acceptance for treating Clostridium difficile infection, a life threatening and difficult to treat dysbiosis that often is caused by heavy use of antibiotics.

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Employees in the poultry industry typically work without protective equipment in dusty spaces crowded with thousands of birds; heavy antibiotic use in those conditions creates a paradise for the emergence and spread of these multiantibiotic - resistant bacteria.

But it could also withstand a wide variety of antibiotics like ampicillin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, rifampin, and even ciprofloxacin, a heavy - hitter used as a last resort against resistant Salmonella.

Heavy antibiotic use kills B12 producing bacteria in the guts of farm animals.»

Researchers at the Heart Disease Foundation in New York found that antibiotics used to treat infection were not effective in the presence of heavy metals such as mercury and lead.

My history of 15 years of heavy antibiotic use for chronic sinus infections as a young man set me up to have a histamine intolerance.

I am being treated with an extremely heavy and prolonged dose of antibiotics — I've been using this daily and after 5 weeks of antibiotics I have had no GI upsets or other secondary infections often associated with antibiotics.

If the ears have heavy scabs you might use a very small amount of antibiotic ointment, but be very careful not to get it on the tape.