Sentences with phrase «multiple types of antibiotics»

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When U.S. physicians prescribe antibiotics, more than 60 percent of the time they choose some of the strongest types of antibiotics, referred to as «broad spectrum,» which are capable of killing multiple kinds of bacteria, University of Utah researchers show in a new study.

Bacteria can acquire multiple drug resistance traits over time, making them resistant to several different types of antibiotics.

Progress is being made in creating an antiviral drug that could kill multiple viruses, in the same way that antibiotics kill many different types of bacteria.