Sentences with phrase «first antibiotic»

«We could kill already 90 percent of the Salmonella with the first antibiotic dose, particularly those that grew rapidly,» reports Bumann, «but non-growing Salmonella survived much better.

Work is under way to identify the active ingredients, which could ultimately result in the first antibiotics originating from insects.

In a series of case studies, Meyers analyzes how credit has been doled out in major scientific discoveries, including the creation of MRI and the development of streptomycin, the first antibiotic against tuberculosis.

«Since the discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928, bacteria have become smarter and have developed resistance to many drugs,» says Luk, an expert in bio-organic chemistry, nanomaterials and chemical biology.

He had stumbled onto the first antibiotic.

The first antibiotic they tried brought me out in a textbook rash, but my fever continued to flourish.

As chronicled by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, the Garden State's thousands of job - creating innovations range from major technological advances such as electric light, read - only memory, the television camera, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis, and the liquid crystal to low - tech moneymakers such as bubble wrap, condensed soup, and Band - Aids.

When the first antibiotics became available 70 years ago, they were often described as miracles of human ingenuity, rather like plastics or bright permanent dyes, which were discovered at roughly the same time.

Microbiologists believe that integrons have existed for eons but took on their current role only after the development of the first antibiotics, which gave an advantage to microbes that could collect the resistance genes.

Penicillin was one of the first antibiotics.

The study was led by Dale Boger, co-chair of TSRI's department of chemistry, who said the discovery made the new version of vancomycin the first antibiotic to have three independent «mechanisms of action'to kill bacteria.

When did they take their first antibiotic?

BUT, before you even pop that first antibiotic pill in your mouth, you need to already have an antibiotic recovery plan in mind, or in place.

It was the first antibiotic and became a life - saving drug for infections in people.

In many infections, penicillins may be one of the first antibiotics used, before further testing or a culture.