Sentences with phrase «than antibiotic resistance»

This is a desirable feature for a helper drug as it would reduce the risk of treatment failure due to factors other than antibiotic resistance (e.g. biofilms, immunosuppression, etc.), allow dose reduction for toxic antibiotics such as colistin, and possibly even prevent selection of resistant mutants» says Guardabassi.

Not exact matches

The evolution of such resistance does not cause the organism to be more intrinsically virulent than strains of Staphylococcus aureus that have no antibiotic resistance, but resistance does make MRSA infection more difficult to treat with standard types of antibiotics and thus more dangerous.

«Nightmare bacteria» with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the United States last year in a first - of - a-kind hunt to see how much of a threat these rare cases are becoming, health officials said Tuesda...

Moreover, the antibiotic resistance observed in Kosher chicken samples in the cite you linked to was attributed to the fact that «use of antibiotics in the kosher production chain is common and... may be more intensive than use of antibiotics among conventional, organic, or RWA practices.»

Villages close to a road built in Ecuador saw a larger rise in antibiotic resistance than did more remote areas.

Mitchell Cohen, a microbiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, says that although he finds the EGS approach to drug resistance «very clever,» in the long run, it may be no more effective than another new antibiotic.

PETRI PLATTER A petri dish more than a meter long helped scientists visualize the evolution of antibiotic resistance in E. coli bacteria.

Soon more antibiotics will be consumed by animals than by people — causing the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics to accelerate

Heavy use of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance, but researchers now speculate that antibiotics can also upset the balance of the microbial community, allowing disease to take over rather than fighting it.

For more than 30 years, scientists have proposed that resistance genes actually originate from the microorganisms producing the antibiotic.

More than three fourths of all current antibiotics used to treat human infections are produced by Actinobacteria, which at the same time carry antibiotic resistance genes.

Prof. Raymond Kaempfer, the Dr. Philip M. Marcus Professor of Molecular Biology and Cancer Research at the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada (IMRIC), in the Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine, explains: «Rather than targeting the bacterial pathogens, which can then mutate to develop antibiotic resistance, host - oriented therapeutics have the advantage of remaining effective even against infections with antibiotic - resistant strains.

Researchers have found that just five strains are overwhelmingly the culprits in more than 3000 samples of resistant S. aureus collected from patients around the world; the small number suggests that relatively few strains can easily develop resistance to antibiotics, allowing scientists to focus on these few and determine what makes them so virulent.

They found that the phages from antibiotic - treated mice carried significantly higher numbers of bacterial drug - resistance genes than they would have carried by chance.

«The results mean that the antibiotic - resistance situation is even more troubling than we thought,» said senior author Jim Collins, Ph.D., a pioneer of synthetic biology and Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, who is also the William F. Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, where he leads the Center of Synthetic Biology.

«Our work suggests that selective pressure other than antibiotics may drive resistance,» says Tenaillon.

To reverse the tide of resistance, the report recommends safeguarding the potency of existing antibiotics rather than focussing on developing new ones.

The researchers discovered that the ancient human oral microbiome already contained the basic genetic machinery for antibiotic resistance more than eight centuries before the invention of the first therapeutic antibiotics in the 1940s.

«Bacteria are forming resistance to antibiotics faster than we can make new ones, so there is a real need to use the antibiotics that are already on the market more efficiently,» said Meredith.

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.

In fact, the overuse of antibiotics in livestock is a bigger driver of resistance than the overuse of antibiotics in people.

Pruden says that sul1 antibiotic - resistance genes were 1,000 — 10,000 times higher in human - affected sites than in the «natural background» of more pristine areas of the watershed.

A test that can detect bacterial infections within hours, rather than days, could prove a crucial weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistance

Allison Lopatkin, a doctoral student in You's laboratory and first author of the paper, carefully measured the rate of conjugation and antibiotic resistance in pathogens for more than a month.

The annual costs for these pathogens may now exceed a total of $ 2 billion for more than 80,000 cases per year, as increased antibiotic resistance leads to greater hospital charges, longer lengths of stay, and increased risk of complications.

(Persistence differs from antibiotic resistance, which occurs when mutations in microbial DNA, rather than a dormant state, enable them to tolerate drugs.)

This is an attempt to incentivize large companies to formulate new antibiotics that don't contribute to antimicrobial resistance, which accounts for more than 700,000 deaths a year and counting.

But the «phantom menace» earned its name because it has gotten less attention than other CREs, since its antibiotic resistance is relatively lower than other strains, and because it can escape detection from scientists.

There's no evidence that these soaps work better than regular or alcohol - based soaps, and some studies suggest they may contribute to antibiotic resistance and have «unanticipated hormonal effects» in people over the long - term, according to a 2013 U.S. Food and Drug Administration consumer update.

The Chief Medical Officer of Britain even warned that the ever - growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is becoming a bigger threat to world peace than terrorism.

Aug. 17, 2007 — Antibacterial soaps are no more effective than plain soap and water for killing disease - causing germs, but the jury is still out on whether they promote antibiotic resistance in users, a newly published research analysis shows.

Furthermore, due to the routine use of antibiotics in conventional raising of turkeys, bacteria found on raw turkey have also shown greater antibiotic resistance than expected.

Before they get to the antibiotic resistance genes discussion, Dr. Brady shares more about this 2 - year old test and why he has found it superior to other stool testing, sharing that it's more comprehensive than what the gastroenterologist would do, plus the fact that other functional stool tests rely on culture technologies which has the limitation that you can only test bugs that you can grow.

If there are signs of resistance to an antibiotic, it is best to have a culture and sensitivity test done to determine the exact type of bacteria and to determine the most suitable antibiotic to treat it as just rotating through different antibiotics may cause more harm than good.

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science.slashdot.org - «Nightmare bacteria» with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the United States last year in a first - of - a-kind hunt to see how much of a threat these rare cases are becoming, health officials said this week.

By using two drugs, we can delay the inevitable evolution of antibiotic resistance by attacking the bacteria in two vulnerable locations, rather than just one, making it more difficult for the bug to mount a defense and pass on its superior survival skills to subsequent generations.

Why it's harmful: This was believed to be more effective than regular soap, but a 2013 Food and Drug Administration report found that long - term daily use of the active ingredient triclosan may have unanticipated hormonal effects and may lead to antibiotic resistance.