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Word: antibioticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a microbe replicates itself over many generations, mutations in the DNA that forms the organism's genetic blueprint can sometimes make it safe from an antibiotic. If, for example, the drug kills the bacterium by latching onto a specific molecule on its cell wall, a change in that molecule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of The Superbugs | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

Overuse of antibiotics has accelerated the evolution of superbugs, and hospitals, in particular, are major breeding grounds. For decades, surgeons and internists have fought infections in some extremely ill patients with massive doses of antibiotics, and when one drug didn't work, they tried another and another. From the standpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of The Superbugs | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

Day-care centers provide another setting that amplifies microbial mischief. & In 1989, for instance, eight children in a center near Cleveland, Ohio, came down with chronic middle-ear infections caused by the same antibiotic- resistant strain of pneumococcus. Subsequent throat swabs revealed that 50 of the 250 children enrolled at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of The Superbugs | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

One reason bacteria acquire resistance to several antibiotics is that many drugs are derivative of one another. For example, when bacteria developed an enzyme to chew up penicillin, drug designers retaliated with larger antibiotic molecules that did not fit into the site that serves as that enzyme's "mouth." In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of The Superbugs | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

AIDS patients and many other extremely ill people have a special problem: their immune systems are too impaired to fight disease efficiently. As a result, they often require repeated courses of antibiotic therapy to hold infections at bay. But the longer the treatment lasts, the greater the likelihood that resistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of The Superbugs | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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