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"For the love of God, stop flushing your antibiotics down the drains and just finish your course of them to make sure the bacteria for your infection is destroyed unless you want to create a stronger version of that bacteria."
"Every time you take a course of antibiotics, you're killing all your bacteria as well in your gut."
"Antibiotics are one of the greatest medical advancements in human history."
"Our society's overuse of antibiotics is like wrecked our guts and caused a lot of chronic health conditions."
"Antibiotics are extreme derived from microorganisms and the growth of or the death of bacteria is controlled by them."
"The strains of salmonella that are showing up on these chickens are tougher, stronger, and many of them are antibiotic resistant."
"Our approach revealed this amazing molecule, which is arguably one of the more powerful antibiotics that has been discovered."
"Penicillin has saved millions and millions of lives."
"When we're going to be looking at the effect of antibiotics..."
"No antibiotics. Like, do I want my chicken to take antibiotics?"
"Every inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture is potentially a death warrant for a future patient."
"Antibiotics: Cilin for broad spectrum, Aminoglycosides for serious infections, Vancomycin for MRSA."
"If you're the Chinese and you want to really just destroy us, just stop sending us antibiotics."
"I know that people say a lot of very terrible things about antibiotics, about accutane, in particular, but as you can see, it's not that bad, medicine is here to help us, not to kill us."
"Always teach clients to finish the entire course of antibiotics."
"Antibiotics are enzyme inhibitors; that's how they work."
"The prospect of life without antibiotics is barely imaginable for a world that has had a cheap and plentiful supply of them since the end of World War II."
"We treat the patient's initial... with empirical antibiotics... cover the common causes of pneumonia."
"When your kids are ill, you just want to help them feel better. But you don't always need antibiotics." - NHS Choices Advertisement
"So that's five different antibiotics that a physician can't use to treat an E coli infection."
"Please don’t be scared of antibiotics because of this video."
"Knowing which antibiotics to bring, knowing which conditions you're likely to see, what people are going to be eating, what they're going to be doing."
"Apply an antibiotic cream if the person has no allergy to it."
"The discovery of antibiotics is the most important discovery in medicine so far."
"Once antibiotics are no longer effective, it will take us back to the dark ages of medicine."
"Fleming's rush to take his vacay wound up producing one of the most important antibiotics of the last century."
"Fleming once wrote: 'When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer.'"
"The first antibiotic had been created and the world now had a potential cure for pneumonia, gonorrhea, meningitis, scarlet fever, and other infectious diseases."
"We overuse antibiotics anyway... we certainly are overusing them today to where they will become ineffective."
"This antibiotic selectively kills beneficial bacteria and selects for pathogens."
"Probiotics, either in supplement form or in fermented foods, can actually shorten the duration of antibiotic-associated diarrhea."
"Every cloud has a silver lining, and my incredibly painful accident means that today, with the help of Zoe's microbiome testing technology and expert team, I can show you what happened to my gut microbes before and after taking antibiotics."
"This antibiotic had wiped out 80 percent of these good bugs."
"Beta-lactam and macrolide would be appropriate here."
"These are sulfonamides— the first drugs that made a meaningful impact on humans’ ability to survive bacterial infections."
"But starting in the 1940s, sulfa drugs were replaced by more effective antibiotics."
"Antibiotics decimate the good microbes."
"We would have much more success with bacteria if we weren't so profligate with our best weapon against them—antibiotics."
"Antibiotics should be kept the last resort, life-saving measures."
"Antibiotics reduce the diversity in our microbiome. We want to restore that diversity after the fact and one of the ways that we can do this is with fermented food."
"70 percent or more of every antibiotic prescription written is completely unnecessary and unhealthy."
"But probably most important is our overuse of antibiotics every time we take antibiotics there is collateral damage we target our beneficial bacteria."
"Natural things, with the immune system's help, can kick things antibiotics are used for."
"There were dramatic differences between the group that took antibiotics and DSO one and people that took antibiotics and had a placebo or spontaneous recovery."
"There's one thing: penicillin. Everyone who came up with that, who came up with that? Fleming was it? Yeah, he discovered it, alright. I'm 30, don't think I've ever used it."
"Why reach for antibiotics if you could just reach for surveillance?"
"Antibiotic resistant bacteria is going to spread really easily."
"Antibiotics you take once for maybe seven days."
"Many antibiotics work by blocking the function of the ribosomes, therefore these antibiotics will block protein synthesis."
"None of our children have ever had to take antibiotics, which is a big blessing."
"Antibiotics and meds: looting hospitals means they're non-existent."
"Tetracyclines are broad-spectrum antibiotics, treating various infections like chlamydia, Lyme disease, pneumonia, anthrax, and acne."
"If you're prescribing tetracycline to a female teenager, you need to ask about pregnancy or sexual activity. It's crucial for contraceptive use."
"Graph neural networks were used in a pipeline that allowed to discover a new class of antibiotics."
"Researchers recently did a study where they looked at people who had taken antibiotics... Turns out that the people who did that did not replenish their gut bacteria as well as people who just let nature take its course."
"It's not a forever thing... if you have to take an antibiotic, take probiotics at the same time."
"Only bacterial infections are treated with antibiotics."
"Antibiotics kill bacteria in three ways... It could also be interfering with protein synthesis and this is when the antibiotic would attach onto the bacterial ribosomes and that will then prevent proteins being synthesized and eventually the bacteria would die."
"One course of antibiotics shown to increase your risk of major depression by 24 and anxiety disorders by 17 percent."
"None of their meat is ever given antibiotics or added hormones."
"Antibiotics have been abused and misused for so long, the various bacteria strains have started to get resistance to them."
"The biggest culprit that's promoting antimicrobial resistance in the world right now is actually antibiotics given to livestock."
"Bacteria are the ones that invented those antibiotics in the first place."
"We need more research, particularly with regards to antibiotics."
"One of the skills a doctor has to have is judging when to use antibiotics, when not to, which one to use, for how long, and how many courses you can give before further investigations are done."
"Every hour that antibiotics are delayed, there's an increased risk for mortality for the patients."
"...treatment is really two things: broad spectrum IV antibiotics..."
"I think one really important issue is... the use of antibiotics in raising animals."
"Can the ocean yield a new antibiotics for the next century? I'll leave it to you to think out. I won't stick my neck out but I'll sell you one thing if I could buy stock in it I'd do it."
"Penicillin can certainly work wonders."
"Microbes from land have historically been an important source of medicines, antibiotics like penicillin."
"Working on creating an antibiotic that could save many lives."
"Antibiotics can dramatically alter the gut microbiome by killing off billions of good bacteria in one shot."
"In the last five years, I've thought a lot about the need for new antibiotics."
"Antibiotics are chemicals produced by bacteria and fungi that help inhibit or kill other microbes."
"A broad spectrum is an antibiotic that's effective against a wide variety of organisms both gram-positive and gram-negative."
"A narrow spectrum is an antibiotic that is effective against only specific types of organisms."
"Advancement in antibiotics gave patients the ability to treat themselves from home."
"Antibiotic resistance is when a microorganism like bacteria is no longer responding to antibiotics they were previously susceptible to."
"Antibiotics are crucial in fighting bacterial infections but they come with their own set of challenges."
"The discovery of antibiotics, the introduction of vaccines, and other biomedical and public health measures have ensured that humans now live longer than at any time in history."
"The reason that we live longer than we used to is because we have antibiotics."
"A vegan lifestyle is associated with a reduced load of human gut antibiotic-resistant genes."
"It's always been the case that there were on planet Earth bacteria that are resistant to compounds that we use today as antibiotics."
"Phages were discovered before we discovered antibiotics and they were used as an antimicrobial agent for years before Alexander Fleming discovered and used penicillin."
"It's very important that we have antibiotic options to treat these different pathogens."
"Alliums is one of the better antibiotics that you can get and use on your homestead that is a natural antibiotic."
"My doctor prescribed an antibiotic to fight my infection."
"Microorganisms can also act as antibiotics, as well as in the case of penicillin."
"Metronidazole is usually considered the drug of choice."
"Factors that enhance wound healing include treatment with antibiotics to control infection."
"These new antibiotics are game changers."
"Antibiotics have changed the game for the human race."
"Millions, if not a billion people, have been saved as a result of antibiotic treatment."
"Antibiotics are one of the greatest innovations of modern medicine that changed the world."
"If the patient is going home but still has had comorbidities or has been on antibiotics in the past three months, you're still going to use your macrolides and doxycycline, but you're going to combine it with another weapon, and that's going to be your beta-lactam antibiotics."
"The treatment for endometritis is admission and this drug cocktail very commonly given: clindamycin and gentamicin."
"The treatment for mastitis is antibiotics and drain the boobs."
"Improved antibiotic use can lead to improved patient outcomes."
"Penicillins are one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics."
"That's how antibiotics were discovered, believe it or not."
"The successes in treating bacterial infections with antibiotics after World War I led to the search for antivirals."
"Antibiotics, yes, okay, take, take, take, that is brilliant."
"The effect that they have on you is pretty spectacular, which is why we need to limit our use of antibiotics."
"Once TB was a widespread infection, but in the 1950s several antibiotics were developed which helped eliminate the disease in many countries."
"You don't take antibiotics for a virus."
"Many liken antibiotics to giving a box of chocolates to an angry spouse."
"The overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics may be contributing to increasing rates of asthma and allergies in children."
"Antibiotics will be an absolute lifesaver."
"Choosing antibiotics carefully would actually be a good thing."
"This is really important for antibiotic resistance; we'll talk about this again in chapter 12."
"Humans can reduce antibiotic resistance by only using antibiotics when essential and completing the full course of a prescription."
"Penicillin targets enzymes that synthesize the bacterial cell wall. Now, do animals have a cell wall? No, so because we don't have this enzyme, penicillin doesn't kill us."
"Antibiotics kill bacteria by preventing cell wall synthesis, disrupting cell membranes, or interfering with protein synthesis."
"The use of medium and antibiotics can also have a huge impact on your cell line performance."
"We all take too many antibiotics... they destroy our microbiome."
"Garlic... a nice natural antibiotic that is selective to those bacteria but won't create any damage to your cells."
"So important, especially in this chapter, are your counseling points with your antibiotics."
"Antibiotics have been revolutionary, extended lifespan."
"Doxycycline can be used for a wide variety of infections."
"The evolution of antibiotic resistance is a pretty serious issue."
"Make sure that you take the probiotic a couple hours after each antibiotic dose."
"Some fungi produce antibiotic substances used as medicines to fight bacterial infections."
"Microbes don't seem to be able to develop resistance against them, suggesting they could make excellent new antibiotics."
"Antibiotics are produced by natural metabolic processes of some other microorganism because they don't want to compete."
"Peptidoglycan is only found in bacteria, making it a target for antibacterial components such as antibiotics."
"By 2050, people being resistant to antibiotics is gonna be the number one killer over cancer."
"The capacity of saving lives through antibiotics has been enormous and has just really been transformative."
"As with all antibiotics, it's important to use them with care."
"I'm not anti-antibiotics at all; I'm a big fan, love them, truly would be dead without them."
"Antibiotics do nothing for a cold."
"Antibiotic drugs work because they disrupt the cell wall of the bacteria."
"Please remember to teach these families to take 100% of their antibiotic start-to-finish."
"Antibiotics, especially antibacterial drugs, work in different ways on the bacteria."
"Cell wall active agents are antibiotics which inhibit the synthesis of the bacterial cell wall."
"The beta-lactam ring is the part of the molecule that interacts with target proteins."
"The integrity of the beta-lactam ring is required for the antibiotic action of the beta-lactam antibiotics."
"Very narrow spectrum penicillins are especially effective for staphylococci resistant to penicillinases."
"She's been on antibiotics for six weeks and that seems to have done the trick."
"To treat a bacterial infection, what you'd usually take is antibiotics, and that would usually kill the bacteria."
"By this reasoning, antibiotics should help heal periodontal disease."
"Ensuring that we prescribe antibiotics correctly."
"Are we prepared for a post-antibiotic world?"
"Could antimicrobial resistance make antibiotics obsolete?"
"The human immune system wasn't enough to see lifespans into the high 70s without antibiotics and vaccines."
"You shouldn't take antibiotics for a cold, flu, or sore throat."
"We are in the post-antibiotic age already, meaning that our antibiotics are no longer working as effectively as they used to."
"Alexander Fleming used British thinking to discover penicillin antibiotics."
"The development of bacterial resistance to antibiotics over generations... works very similarly."
"Trimethoprim is a very potent antibiotic for bacteria."
"The development of new antibiotics is an area of interest, and this paper is pretty awesome for that reason."
"Antibiotics are good, but in moderation. Don't take them if you don't need them."