Sentences with phrase «if bacterial resistance»

If bacterial resistance to those drugs is already high because of their use as animal - growth promoters, they could have limited effectiveness as infection fighters in people, he says.

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If so, and if researchers can identify the exact sugars responsible, those molecules might be converted into desperately needed new antibiotic drugs that could sidestep some of the problems, such as bacterial resistance, with existing antibioticIf so, and if researchers can identify the exact sugars responsible, those molecules might be converted into desperately needed new antibiotic drugs that could sidestep some of the problems, such as bacterial resistance, with existing antibioticif researchers can identify the exact sugars responsible, those molecules might be converted into desperately needed new antibiotic drugs that could sidestep some of the problems, such as bacterial resistance, with existing antibiotics.

A recent study from a U.K. commission on antimicrobial resistance estimated that by 2050, antibiotic - resistant bacterial infections will kill 10 million people per year, if no new drugs are developed.

«If you think of the conjugative transfer of resistance genes as bacterial sex, you have to think of tetracycline as the aphrodisiac,» she says.

While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

If you pre-empt a bacterial infection by vaccinating against it, you can cut antibiotic use and the rise of resistance, says a UK government advisory panel

Limiting the use of antibiotics for animal - growth promotion is an important step toward reducing bacterial resistance to medical drugs, says Levy, but he emphasizes that doctors also must be more prudent in prescribing antibiotics if medicine is going to combat growing drug resistance in microbes.

However, Lipsitch says that if livestock producers simply switch from antibiotics in the classes that McDonald's won't buy to growth promoters from other classes of antibiotics, bacterial drug resistance might remain at its current prevalence or continue to increase.

Bacterial resistance may form if the antibiotic is discontinued before the prescribed treatment period.

Antibiotics should be used as a last resort, and not used for front line treatment, and if they were used like this as the rule, bacterial resistance would have probably not occurred.