Sentences with phrase «known as antibiotics»

Lead researcher Prof Changjiang Dong, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: «Bacterial multi-drug resistance, also known as antibiotic resistance, is a global health challenge.

They successfully pinpointed the exact spot in the chromosomal structure that is home to the genes which makes it drug - resistant, known as an antibiotic resistance island.

Allicin carries many different benefits, and it is mostly known as an antibiotic and immune system booster.

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Farmers who raise bulls and sell them (known as source stock producers) should provide affidavits stating which their bulls had been not raised using antibiotics or development hormones from the day of their birth.

The best way to prevent the spread of staph infections such as the antibiotic - resistant skin infection or «super bug» known as methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus («MRSA») is to maintain good personal hygiene in locker room, schools and at home.

MRSA: an antibiotic - resistant skin infection or «super bug» known as methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus («MRSA»).

The best way to prevent the spread of staph infections such as the antibiotic - resistant skin infection or «super bug» known as methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus («MRSA») is to maintain good personal hygiene in football locker room, schools and at home.

More and more outbreaks of the antibiotic - resistant skin infection or «super bug» known as methicillin - resistant staphylococcus aureus («MRSA») are being reported in schools across the nation.

Well, I mean, the less infections you have as a child, that means, you know, less antibiotics... that's huge!

Two antibiotics and three weeks later, he would no longer latch on, and I beat myself up for months as I made bottle after bottle...

You know, antibiotics obviously were created for a reason, but a lot of time they are given to someone unnecessarily and they just compromise your immune system and so, the less sick that you get as an infant and a toddler, and you know, a child, is obviously creating a stronger immune system for you as in an adulthood and so, that would be, you know, the main reason to continue it, for as long as you find, you know, mutually beneficial for you and the baby.

Even livestock that has been treated with an antibiotic can no longer be able to be identified as organically raised.

As new diseases emerge, and older medicines - most notably antibiotics - no longer work as well, that contribution to finding better and safer medicines becomes all the more vitaAs new diseases emerge, and older medicines - most notably antibiotics - no longer work as well, that contribution to finding better and safer medicines becomes all the more vitaas well, that contribution to finding better and safer medicines becomes all the more vital.

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.

«Our action should not be interpreted as a sign that the FDA no longer has safety concerns about the use of medically important antibiotics in [livestock],» said an FDA spokeswoman.

It would also deliver antibiotics to control infection and signal molecules known as growth factors to accelerate skin regeneration.

Gonorrhoea — a sexual infection also known as «the clap» — is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

Research focused on the utilisation of viruses that infect and kill bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phages, in preventing infectious diseases has gained new traction after bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become a global problem.

Using a special profiling technique, scientists at Princeton have determined the mechanism of action of a potent antibiotic, known as tropodithietic acid (TDA), leading them to uncover its hidden ability as a potential anticancer agent.

In addition, overuse of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture also have made some bacteria, such as MRSA, shrug off most known treatments, making at least 2 million Americans sick every year.

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.

The research found that practices that prescribed fewer antibiotics had slightly higher rates of pneumonia and peritonsillar abscess (also known as quinsy)-- a rare complication of sore throats.

Salmon farms were already known to weaken wild populations by exposing them to lice infestations, interbreeding with escaped farmed fish, and contaminants such as antibiotics, pesticides, and disinfectants.

They found that the bacteria from the geckos» intestines — known as enteric bacteria — were resistant to the antibiotics.

To help on this front, in a new paper published in the journal Structure, researchers from McGill University present in atomic detail how specific bacterial enzymes, known as kinases, confer resistance to macrolide antibiotics, a widely used class of antibiotics and an alternative medication for patients with penicillin allergies.

But Hersh believes this second factor is changing, due in part to major efforts to educate people about the problems associated with overuse of antibiotics, such as CDC's «Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work&raquantibiotics, such as CDC's «Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work&raquAntibiotics Work» program.

It is already known that early - life use of antibiotics is connected to increased risk of immune - mediated diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, and asthma, as well as obesity.

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.

The impatient gene It's long been known that evolution sometimes happens very quickly — as in the development of resistance to antibiotics in bacteria — but the discovery that lizards on two islands in Croatia evolved significant differences in body type and social structure in the span of fewer than forty years is shocking enough to warrant publication in a top - shelf journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

However, as a result of use and misuse of antibiotics (such as using the wrong drug, or not completing the full course of treatment) bacteria can develop drug resistance (known as acquired drug resistance).

The sequencing data was sent to Georgia Tech, where doctoral student Maria Juliana Soto - Girón matched the sequences against known bacteria — and genes that have known effects, such as virulence and antibiotic resistance.

Until now, a type of bacteria known as Gram negative have remained susceptible to one particular class of antibiotics, called polymyxins.

Epigenetics does indeed contribute to antibiotic resistance in bacteria by giving rise to bacteria known as persisters.

This new class of antibiotics works against TB by disrupting the function of a part of the cell known as the ribosome, which is responsible for protein synthesis.

An especially important property from the start was possibly that the mixture was effective against a wide variety of fungi, as no specialized pathogens in beewolves are known to have evolved resistance to these antibiotics.

Biologists later found that when microbes are not under such antibiotic pressure, they copy their DNA using enzymes known as DNA polymerases that make very few mistakes.

Based on previous research, mostly related to antibiotic use, Jerant believes a strategy known as watchful waiting — a middle ground between a flat denial and immediate «yes» — could be useful to physicians.

These phages and plasmids can easily move between bacterial cells, and scientists have known for some time that, as a result, these so - called mobile genetic elements can play important roles in virulence and antibiotic resistance.

In their new study, the researchers looked for gene clusters associated with calcium - binding motifs similar to those in known antibiotics such as daptomycin and friulimicin, which require calcium for their antimicrobial action.

Another is a series over an antibiotic known by many names, such as «Septrin» and «Bactrim», which, although largely banned in the UK after my investigation during the 1990s, continues to cause a worldwide epidemic of deaths and suffering.

Six to twelve months after traditional antibiotic therapy, many people have non-objective symptoms that return with varying intensity and no current treatment strategy, known as Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome.

Already a major threat, antibiotic - resistant bacteria, aka «superbugs,» could wreak havoc with civilization

Bacteria that have evolved to evade the antibiotics that we use to treat them are known as superbugs.

On their own, both inhibitors failed to protect the antibiotic, known as ceftazidime.

Knowing local spectrum and sensitivity for bacterial isolates causing febrile neutropenia is important as starting an appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy is considered a medical emergency in these high - risk patients.

New research being conducted at the University of Colorado Boulder has found that tiny particles known as quantum dots might be useful in tackling antibiotic - resistant bacteria, which cause in excess of 23,000 deaths in the US every year.

Antibiotics destroy healthy bacteria, which we now know to be essential for health, and they lead to leaky gut, as do antacids and anti-inflammatory drugs.

Both belong to the family of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones and are prescribed for a variety of bacterial infections.

Drug interactions: Calcium can interfere with many medications, including prescription osteoporosis drugs known as bisphosphonates (such as alendronate), certain blood pressure medications, antibiotics in the tetracycline and quinolone families (like Cipro); and levothyroxine, which treats hypothyroidism.

As we know, the antibiotics affect the mother's resident microbes, inhibiting susceptible bacteria and selecting for resistance.

Chicken containing «antibiotics important to human medicine» will no longer be used as of March 2017.