Sentences with phrase «increasing bacterial resistance»

But increasing bacterial resistance to these drugs is leading researchers to look for alternative treatment strategies.

Not exact matches

Microbial resistance to antibiotics and biocides is increasing, and our ability to effectively treat bacterial infections and contamination is under threat.

Work previously published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0906112107) from Lee's collaborator Arul Jayaraman, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University who holds a master's from Tufts School of Engineering, had already demonstrated that indole, a bacterial metabolite derived from the aromatic amino acid tryptophan, caused an anti-inflammatory response in the gut and increased resistance to pathogen colonization that could lead to infection

«Antibiotics don't promote swapping of resistance genes: Bacterial resistance spreads through population dynamics, not an increase in gene transfers.»

Their work has demonstrated that this compound prevents the prescription of antibiotics in the prophylaxis for recurrent urinary tract infections in infants with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), so preventing the risk of increasing the bacterial antibiotic resistance.

Last month WHO issued a report that warned of an increase of antimicrobial - resistance and the renewed threat of bacterial infections world - wide and called for a concerted effort to develop new and better antimicrobial drugs.

In part, the increasing prevalence of bacterial resistances is to blame for this.

Researchers have linked increased resistance to bacterial pneumonia in female mice to an enzyme activated by the female sex hormone estrogen.

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.

«It is possible for increases in untreated infections to offset some of the protective abilities of PrEP, especially given the increases in antibiotic resistance for the medications used to treat some of the common bacterial infections like gonorrhea and chlamydia,» he said.

Moreover, people with low bacterial richness seem to have a higher prevalence of insulin resistance, more inflammation responses, are more likely to be obese, and have an increased amount of cholesterol, not that there is anything necessarily wrong with the latter [4].

Tetracycline use is decreasing due to increasing incidences of bacterial resistance; however, but many doctors still use them with acne, UTIs, as well as respiratory tract infections.

Antibiotic Resistance: High rates of antibiotic use is contributing to the increasing numbers of resistant bacterial strains and loss of antibiotic efficacy.