Sentences with phrase «by powerful antibiotics»

The same adaptations also make the pathogens less likely to be killed off by powerful antibiotics, according to a recent study led by Dr. Lucas «Luke» Hoffman, University of Washington assistant professor of pediatrics.

The gist of the story was that guinea pigs in a university laboratory in Britain had spontaneously recovered their hearing after it had been damaged by powerful antibiotics.

Not exact matches

Dangerous resistant bacteria tend to develop spontaneously in the bodies of patients being given powerful antibiotics for long periods, and virtually never by accident in the laboratory or in the field.

A powerful variety of E. coli reached American shores, and a Nevada woman died of an infection untreatable by available antibiotics.

«We've now shown that our method is a powerful way to identify antibiotics from natural products and understand how they work before they are ever purified,» she added, «potentially shaving years off of screening efforts by identifying which organisms and growth conditions produce interesting bioactive molecules.»

A recent study found that testing for penicillin allergies reduced by 34 percent the use of vancomycin, described in the story as «a powerful, last - resort antibiotic.»

By using a powerful imaging technique known as cryo - electron microscopy, however, Campbell and her colleagues were able to figure out exactly how the antibiotic throws a wrench into RNAP.

But in recent years, microbes have responded by developing resistance to many of the most powerful antibiotics, threatening to undermine one of modern medicine's greatest achievements.

This year, a team led by Evan Snitkin, Ph.D., represents U-M with research aimed at outsmarting «superbug» bacteria that have out - evolved even the most powerful antibiotics.

It comes when the microbiome is powerful enough to do its job by keeping everything in working balance like humans were designed to do — and did do for years before stress, toxins, foods that do more harm than good, and the oh - so - well - meaning antibiotics industry came along.

Ginger is also an all - natural, powerful anti-bacterial that out - performed conventional antibiotics in one 2011 study by the Journal of Microbiology and Antimicrobials.