Sentences with phrase «of bacterial resistance»

Since the 1960s, scientists have cited this use as a major cause of bacterial resistance.

Firstly, you've almost certainly heard of the growing threat of bacterial resistance to antibiotics.

Triclosan: Its efficacy as an antimicrobial agent, the risk of bacterial resistance and its possible role in disrupted hormonal development remain controversial.

Overuse of antibiotics leads to the development of bacterial resistance and puts patients at risk for serious infections such as severe diarrheal infection due to Clostridium difficile (C Diff).

The natural human antimicrobial peptide LL37 and the colistin drug each inhibited growth of about 50 percent of the clinical isolates, indicating a high level of bacterial resistance to these drugs.

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

But because antibiotics are expensive to develop and don't make much money (after all, over-prescribing simply speeds up the formation of bacterial resistance), true innovation comes rarely.

A non-antibiotic lipid compound has been developed that treats severe bacterial infections and avoids the problem of bacterial resistance.

For instance, LA and the derivative monolaurin were reported to destroy cell membranes of gram - positive bacteria and lipid - coated viruses, to interfere with main cellular responses as the activation of transduction cascades and gene transcription, to stabilize cell membranes toward the prevention of bacterial resistance.

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.

The Centers for Disease Control outlines many of the dangers of bacterial resistance on their web page.

The problem was likely to have been caused by the plumbing changes or improperly maintained cisterns, opening the risk of bacterial resistance to disinfectants.

A final concern with antibiotic treatment is that these drugs are often overused and this can contribute to the development of bacterial resistance.