Sentences with phrase «rate of penicillin»

Over one five - year period in the 1990s, the rate of penicillin resistance increased by 300 percent, while cefotaxime resistance grew by more than 1,000 percent.

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They also found high rates of resistance among commonly used antibiotics in the U.S., like cephalosporins and penicillins.

Residents of China have some of the highest drug resistance rates in the world, with 42 to 83 percent of healthy people carrying in their bowels «bacteria that produce extended - spectrum beta - lactamases, which create reservoirs of potential pathogens that can destroy penicillin and most of its variants.»