Word: antibioticized
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Convinced that he had Lyme disease, Quinn dragged himself to the Westchester County Medical Center. After examining him, however, doctors concluded that Quinn didn't have Lyme disease at all. Instead he had contracted human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, or HGE -- a newly discovered tick-borne disease that has stricken at least...
According to Chong and Yeung, possible article topics include trends in medical research, medical education and student health issues. The first issue will concentrate on the common cold, antibiotic resistant bacteria and gene therapy.
Microbes' extraordinary ability to adapt, observes Harvard microbiologist Fields, "is a fact of life. It's written into evolution." Indeed, the end run that many organisms are making around modern antibiotics is a textbook case of Darwin's theory in action (anti-evolutionists, take note). In its simplest form, the...
The process is even faster with antibiotic resistance than it is for other traits because the drugs wipe out the resistant bacterium's competition. Microbes that would ordinarily have to fight their fellows for space and nourishment suddenly find the way clear to multiply. Says Dr. George Curlin of the...
Counterattack: How to build a better antibiotic