Sentences with phrase «widespread use of antibiotics»

Despite the widespread use of antibiotics, factory farmed animals are still susceptible to contract many diseases such as salmonella, mad cow disease and tuberculosis, which can be passed on to humans through eating their products.

But, maybe back then there wasn't widespread use of antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals that disrupted gut flora and ability to digest and assimilate these foods.

It is widely recognised that the widespread use of antibiotics has generated selective pressures that have driven the emergence of resistant strains.

The widespread use of antibiotics puts selective pressure on only the hardiest bacteria to survive — which often carry virulence or drug resistance genes.

Through natural selection and the widespread use of antibiotics, however, methicillin - resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains represent a significant health concern worldwide.

Further, the widespread use of antibiotics to keep livestock healthy on those overcrowded CAFOs has led to the development of antibiotic - resistant strains of bacteria that threaten human health and the environment in their own right.

However, society is still paying the price for the widespread use of antibiotics in agriculture.

The widespread use of antibiotics also encourages the overgrowth of Candida albicans.

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As antibiotic use becomes more widespread and important bacteria are killed off, the environment becomes perfect for the development of thrush.

Such resistance genes are rare to nonexistent in specimens of human tissue and body fluid taken 60 years ago, before the use of antibiotics became widespread.

Widespread use of the drugs fueled the industrialization of poultry production and the rise of antibiotic - resistant bacteria (SN: 9/30/17, p. 30).

This widespread practice — which accounts for 80 per cent of all antibiotic use in the US — increases the risk of resistant strains developing and spreading to hospitals.

The bill bans the routine use of antibiotics in healthy animals to prevent infection, a practice blamed for contributing to widespread antibiotic resistance.

As such, B. bacteriovorus might be more selective than the antibiotics currently in use, and anti-bacterial treatment might not require the widespread extermination of the gut flora that is of importance to human health.»

But widespread use of penicillin and other newer antibiotics has prompted bacteria to evolve strategies for blocking, evading or otherwise resisting these drugs.

Digestive disorders lead to malabsorption of magnesium, as do widespread and chronic antibiotic use.

So it's not a big stretch of the imagination to think that some change, like food additives or antibiotic use, might have caused a fundamental, widespread shift in gut flora, making it easier for many people to gain weight, and increasingly difficult to shed extra pounds.

Since the widespread introduction of antibiotics (1940 - 1945), silver - based formulas were discarded, except for some topical silver salves, used specifically on burns, and neonatal eye drops.

«And the reason for that is because of the widespread use and prescribing of antibiotics.»