Sentences with phrase «multiple antibiotics»

I was treated with multiple antibiotics from the age of 5 until age 17.

Yet, many children receive antibiotics, and sometimes multiple antibiotics for ear aches.

Plasmids are pieces of independent DNA that often carry multiple antibiotic resistance genes.

Treating the disease can be challenging and requires a combination of multiple antibiotics delivered over several months.

The Centers for Disease Control said that Salmonella Heidelberg, as it's named, has shown resistance to multiple antibiotic treatments.

(Pregnant + asthmatic + multiple antibiotic allergies = significant risk of complications or hospitalization.)

Twelve different bacteria, most gram - negative (blue), pose the greatest threat to human health, according to the World Health Organization, because they resist multiple antibiotics.

The researchers found that the share of these infections resistant to multiple antibiotics rose from 0.2 percent in 2007 to 1.5 percent in 2015, a seven - fold - plus increase in a short, eight - year span.

The rise of superbugs that can survive multiple antibiotics — such as MRSA, the notorious «flesh - eating bacterium» — has turned once - trivial infections into persistent problems.

That suggests that phages in the gut may be partly responsible for the emergence of dangerous superbugs that withstand multiple antibiotics, and that drug targeting of phages could offer a potential new path to mitigate development of antibiotic resistance.

Professor Yoshihito Watanabe (WPI - ITbM, Cooperating Researcher), Associate Professor Osami Shoji, Ms. Chikako Shirataki of Nagoya University and co-workers have found a new method using an artificial metalloprotein (a protein that contains a metal) to inhibit the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, which is a common bacterium that can cause diseases in humans and evolves to exhibit multiple antibiotic resistance.

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.

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.

They will also be placed on multiple antibiotics to fight the virus, as well as various gastro - protectants to ease their stomachs so they can begin eating again.

After rounds of multiple antibiotics, the researchers introduced a virulent, multi-drug-resistant C. difficile strain and then began oral dosing with ebselen.

«This mycobacterium can cause very serious infections that are extremely challenging to treat, requiring combination treatment with multiple antibiotics for 18 months or longer,» says Professor Andres Floto from the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, and the Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection at Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

«Heretofore, C. sakazakii - contaminated infant formula has been considered an unsolved problem because antibiotics can not be used,» said Ryu, adding that C. sakazakii has been known to have multiple antibiotic resistance genes.

Infections are often treated longer than necessary, and multiple antibiotics are given when one would work as well.»

Every one proved resistant to multiple antibiotics, not just their own signature chemicals.

The most dangerous strains are those that display resistance to multiple antibiotics.

«But now the problem is that bugs are becoming resistant to multiple antibiotics.

Certain strains of E. coli have been extensively studied, like the «superbug» strain ST131 which is resistant to multiple antibiotics.

There is no vaccine for TB, and treatment is a 6 - 9 month course of multiple antibiotics, which results in high rates of non-compliance and the emergence of drug - resistant strains.

«Nowadays, if you acquire an infection in a hospital, it is extremely rare for the infecting bacterium to not be resistant to multiple antibiotics,» says Australian microbiologist Harold Stokes, research director at the ithree institute, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

«Right now, multiple antibiotics are typically used because doctors don't know what specific infection they have to fight until days later.

Methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria are resistant to multiple antibiotics and commonly cause skin infections that can lead to more serious or life - threatening infection in other parts of the body.

He says that, while factors causing DT104's hyperpathogenicity have not been completely identified, the strain seems to owe its resistance to multiple antibiotics to an integron — or gene cluster — structure designated as «Salmonella genomic island 1» (SGI1).

But over the last 15 or 20 years, it has increasingly become a problem for patients in the hospital because it's very good at developing resistance to multiple antibiotics.

This study shows the typhoid strain causing the outbreak acquired an additional piece of DNA to become resistant to multiple antibiotics, including a third - generation antibiotic.

Hospital - acquired infections are often resistant to multiple antibiotics, leading to...

It is primarily effective against strains that cause strep and staph infections, some of which are resistant to multiple antibiotics.

When I got a high fever the docs thought it was from the sewer and gave me multiple antibiotics.