Sentences with phrase «attack by antibiotics»

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It's all a vicious cycle: use chemicals, create resistant bacteria, get sick, take antibiotics, wipe out the good bacteria, get attacked again by even worse bacteria...

if not treated BY antibiotics attacks your kidneys....

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.

«Antibiotic resistance is not likely to occur because the bacteria therapy is attacking pathogens by multiple different ways at once.»

In E. coli, MphR can detect the presence of macrolide antibiotics being secreted by microbes that are attacking E. coli.

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.

Then he hits it with a whole cocktail of antibiofilm agents to attack the colony defenses instead of the bacteria themselves — a departure from usual antibiotic therapy, where one drug, when it fails to resolve the infection, is followed by another, and another.

In patients with antibiotic - refractory Lyme arthritis, there is mounting evidence that Lyme infection triggers an abnormal immune response, which in turn attacks the tissues of the joints, even after B. burgdorferi has been cleared by antibiotics.

«We now know what genes were gained by enterococci hundreds of millions of years ago, when they became resistant to drying out, and to disinfectants and antibiotics that attack their cell walls,» study leader Michael S. Gilmore, a senior scientist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and director of the Harvard Infectious Disease Institute, said in the statement.

If this front - line attack didn't force my skin to surrender to its former (manageably flawed) state by morning, she'd upgrade to antibiotic warfare.

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.

Teresa trained Angus to detect Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, a superbug often found in hospitals that attacks people whose immune systems have been weakened by antibiotics.

«By documenting the miniature wildlife,» reports The Wall Street Journal, «microbiologists hope to discover new ways to track disease outbreaks — including contagious diseases like Ebola or measles — detect bioterrorism attacks and combat the growing antibiotic resistance among microbes, which causes about 1.7 million hospital infections every year.»

By using two drugs, we can delay the inevitable evolution of antibiotic resistance by attacking the bacteria in two vulnerable locations, rather than just one, making it more difficult for the bug to mount a defense and pass on its superior survival skills to subsequent generationBy using two drugs, we can delay the inevitable evolution of antibiotic resistance by attacking the bacteria in two vulnerable locations, rather than just one, making it more difficult for the bug to mount a defense and pass on its superior survival skills to subsequent generationby attacking the bacteria in two vulnerable locations, rather than just one, making it more difficult for the bug to mount a defense and pass on its superior survival skills to subsequent generations.