Sentences with phrase «called multiple antibiotic»

The explanation, the team figured, could be that the microcin turned on the so - called multiple antibiotic resistance system, a pump that some bacteria use to get rid of almost anything harmful.

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The U.N. declaration calls for action on multiple fronts, including slashing the use of antibiotics to promote growth in farm animals, limiting their use among humans to only when they are truly necessary and ramping up education about these issues.

Staph infections that become resistant to multiple antibiotics don't happen because the bacteria themselves adapt to the drugs, but because of a kind of genetic parasite they carry called a plasmid that helps its host survive the antibiotics.