noun
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new
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So for purely practical reasons, microbes were the best route for discovering new antibiotics .
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The company, named for a friend who died from an infection, would search for new targets for antibiotics .
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More to the point, as resistant strains emerge, the greater becomes our need for new antibiotics to cure sick people.
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Pfizer has had setbacks, such as the withdrawal of its new antibiotic , Trovan.
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resistance
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Importantly, 27 patients carried two or more strains with different antibiotic resistances .
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There were two startling things about antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria.
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This should help slow the rate at which bacteria develop antibiotic resistance .
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Moreover, the problem of antibiotic resistance is global.
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Genes that have great clinical importance include those responsible for antibiotic resistance .
therapy
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It has been postulated that the symptoms of gonorrhoea have diminished since the introduction of effective antibiotic therapy .
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It can sometimes be difficult to decide when to start antibiotic therapy .
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Twelve of these children received previous antibiotic therapy for various reasons, with possible inadvertent effects on the diagnosis of H pylori.
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A course of low-dose tetracycline antibiotic therapy is often effective, but topical steroid creams should be avoided.
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Despite aggressive antibiotic therapy , the epidemic strain continued to be isolated from his sputum and subsequently from blood cultures.
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She received an 11-day course of empirical antibiotic therapy and was discharged.
treatment
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Before antibiotic treatment was used, the condition was universally fatal.
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Cefotiame 2 g intravenously two times daily was used for antibiotic treatment of the cholecystitis.
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During this antibiotic treatment the patient experienced no relief of symptoms.
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We recommend the following guidelines for antibiotic treatment of acne in both hospital and general practice.
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Opinions vary as to how long antibiotic treatment should last, and periods differ between four and twenty-one days.
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Bacterial phlegmonous gastritis either responds to antibiotic treatment or results in death of the patient.
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In our patient all cultures were negative and antibiotic treatment had no effect.
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Reduced numbers of intestinal mucosal plasma cells have been reported, with a return to normal values after antibiotic treatment .
■ VERB
develop
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This should help slow the rate at which bacteria develop antibiotic resistance.
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Diseases are rapidly developing resistances to current antibiotics .
give
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Roos's team gave 108 children antibiotics twice a day for ten days.
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But the decision to give antibiotics to Yeltsin may have been precautionary and not indicative of his condition.
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We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick.
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And little Joan had grown morose and was under the care of a dermatologist who was giving her antibiotics .
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A urologist diagnosed prostatitis and gave him antibiotics , which improved things for a while.
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She gives me antibiotics for my heroin addiction.
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Their captors treated them well, built them a bed and gave Mr Winder antibiotics for a foot infection.
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A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections.
need
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This complete category of woe would suggest a bacterial throat infection needing antibiotics .
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No mystique need surround antibiotics because of their biological origin.
prescribe
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In more serious cases your doctor may prescribe you an oral antibiotic which will reduce the number of sore and inflamed spots.
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Yeast remedies are available over the counter, and a physician can prescribe antibiotics for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and others.
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Firstly, do not prescribe antibiotics if a non-antibiotic topical preparation will suffice.
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A doctor was called out and he diagnosed some kind of virus and prescribed a course of antibiotics .
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So he was prescribed a course of antibiotics .
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If your symptoms are severe, he or she may prescribe a course of antibiotics which are designed to kill the bacteria.
take
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The patient is now well and taking four antituberculous antibiotics and zidovudine.
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She went to the doctor, took antibiotics , accelerated her vitamins, got plenty of rest, but nothing worked.
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I was taken off the antibiotics , but the pain was intensifying each day.
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However, Seldane may cause heart problems if taken with certain antibiotics or anti-fungal drugs, warns Choi.
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Q I am taking a course of antibiotics and continually take anti-histamine tablets.
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Gardner missed the Washington road trip last week with a viral infection and is now taking antibiotics .
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No patients had taken antibiotics for at least one month before endoscopy.
treat
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Fire blight is treated with a streptomycin antibiotic during bloom.
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In some cases, these can be treated with antibiotics , which are useless against viral infections like influenza and colds.
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The disease can be treated with antibiotics .
use
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Cefotiame 2 g intravenously two times daily was used for antibiotic treatment of the cholecystitis.
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A simple, though possibly simplistic, explanation is that these organisms use antibiotics to protect their food supply.
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A second explanation is that antibiotic production is rooted in the plant material that is the food source.
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But the decision to give antibiotics to Yeltsin may have been precautionary and not indicative of his condition.
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Fire blight is treated with a streptomycin antibiotic during bloom.
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Importantly, 27 patients carried two or more strains with different antibiotic resistances.
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Moreover, the problem of antibiotic resistance is global.
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They stated that basic equipment and medicines were in short supply and that antibiotics and analgesics were particularly scarce.
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Thirteen strains were resistant to three or more antibiotics.
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Treat the wasps with an antibiotic and, lo and behold, two genders reappear among the offspring.