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Antibiotic in sentence

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Now that's why, for instance, antibiotic resistance has evolved.
Likewise, if you have the artificial valve option, you're committed to antibiotic therapy whenever you have any intrusive medical treatment, even trips to the dentist require that you take antibiotics, in case you get an internal infection on the valve.
The worst possibility is that a very simple germ, like staph, for which we have one antibiotic that still works, mutates.
Those bedsores become infected, and they give me an antibiotic which I end up being allergic to, and now my whole body breaks out, and now all of those become infected.
It's a natural antibiotic.
Now, could this plant be the answer to antibiotic resistance?
You know, antibiotic resistance is proving to be a big challenge globally.
The first patient to ever be treated with an antibiotic was a policeman in Oxford.
Now, antibiotics have been used for patients like this, but they've also been used rather frivolously in some instances, for treating someone with just a cold or the flu, which they might not have responded to an antibiotic, and they've also been used in large quantities sub-therapeutically, which means in small concentrations, to make chicken and hogs grow faster.
So I don't know where you live, but wherever it is, it certainly is a lot worse now than it was in 1999, and that is the problem of antibiotic resistance.
Well, turns out that anything that reduces the need for the antibiotic would really work, so that could include improving hospital infection control or vaccinating people, particularly against the seasonal influenza.
And the seasonal flu is probably the biggest driver of antibiotic use, both in this country as well as in many other countries, and that could really help.
So this is going to involve a whole new paradigm shift, and it's also a scary shift because in many parts of this country, in many parts of the world, the idea of paying 200 dollars for a day of antibiotic treatment is simply unimaginable.
And what we can see is that just over these few weeks, we have a much more radical change, a setback of many months of normal development, followed by a relatively rapid recovery, and by the time he reaches day 838, which is the end of this video, you can see that he has essentially reached the healthy adult stool community, despite that antibiotic intervention.
So, this is a terrible form of diarrhea where you have to go up to 20 times a day, and these people have failed antibiotic therapy for two years before they're eligible for this trial.
The first test of penicillin, the first antibiotic, was three years in the future.
People are dying of infections again because of a phenomenon called antibiotic resistance.
Every time we use an antibiotic, we give the bacteria billions of chances to crack the codes of the defenses we've constructed.
We could require agriculture to give up antibiotic use.
Antibiotic resistance is a habit.
We could change social norms around antibiotic use too.
I know that the scale of antibiotic resistance seems overwhelming, but if you've ever bought a fluorescent lightbulb because you were concerned about climate change, or read the label on a box of crackers because you think about the deforestation from palm oil, you already know what it feels like to take a tiny step to address an overwhelming problem.
We could take those kinds of steps for antibiotic use too.
We could forgo giving an antibiotic if we're not sure it's the right one.
We could promise each other never again to buy chicken or shrimp or fruit raised with routine antibiotic use, and if we did those things, we could slow down the arrival of the post-antibiotic world.
Penicillin began the antibiotic era in 1943.
Now, the reason for the dominance of this model is of course the antibiotic revolution.
When scientist Alexander Fleming mistakenly contaminated a Petri dish in the lab, it led to the discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin.
My own grandfather passed away after a single dose of antibiotic caused his kidneys to fail.
But there's another really interesting aspect of this, and this is that if you could control the evolution of virulence, evolution of harmfulness, then you should be able to control antibiotic resistance.
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