Word: ampicillin
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...overuse of antibiotics is increasing the resistance of bacteria to drugs, leading to stubborn, virulent infections that are invulnerable to almost everything doctors can throw at them. Already, more than 90% of some bacteria species in Asia have developed strong immunity to frequently administered antibiotics such as penicillin and ampicillin, according to the World Health Organization. Despite growing awareness of the problem, health-care experts now fear that widespread misuse of antibiotics in populous developing countries such as China will accelerate the emergence of new strains of supergerms, making everything from common diseases like pneumonia to routine surgery more dangerous...
...experiment was carried out using two types of chemical tests—Luria broth plus ampicillin (an antibiotic), and YEPD (yeast extract with peptone and dextrose)—and four petri dishes: one sample for each foot (for comparative purposes) and two control dishes. After one week’s incubation, the two sample dishes blossomed with colorful fungi—savory reds and yellows of yeasts, lovely whitish blobs of a penicillin species, green spots of trichoderma and delightful traces of aspergillus—but nothing out-of-the-ordinary for an outdoor statue. “These...
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