Sentence examples for antimicrobials from inspiring English sources
The word "antimicrobials" is correct and can be used in written English
You would use this word when describing a drug or other substance that kills or inhibits the growth of microorganisms. For example, "The doctor prescribed an antimicrobial to treat the bacterial infection."
noun
Plural of antimicrobial
This will involve developing antimicrobials that clean with much less water, more-efficient systems for processing waste and new ways to use non-potable "grey" water, for example in factories.Investors bought this line to such an extent that the share price jumped on news of the Champion acquisition, even though the difficult process of integrating Nalco was unfinished.
Streptomycin was discovered in 1944, and since then many other antibiotics and other types of antimicrobials have been found and put into use.
Food preservatives are classified into two main groups: antioxidants and antimicrobials, as shown in the Table.
O'Neill had first of all assumed the global taxpayer would pick up the tab for this extra research and development through easier tax treatment of new antimicrobials.
His review into a growing resistance to antimicrobials – drugs which include antibiotics, antivirals and antifungals – comes as the number people dying in Europe from infections too powerful to be treated reaches 25,000 a year.
It is prevented by routine application of antimicrobials to each eye of an infant after delivery.
Despite this, Australia has never had a national strategy for tackling antimicrobial resistance until now.
Professor Jonathan Iredell, an infectious diseases physician who specialises in the transmission of antibiotic resistance, said Australia's national antimicrobial strategy would also mean funding for the sector was more secure.
"This is a long overdue statement of policy that recognises the threat that antimicrobial resistance poses to health in Australia," Cheng said.
The stark figures, published on Thursday, and believed to be the first to quantify the potential impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – drug-resistant infections or superbugs – will be used to make the case to global leaders that urgent action is needed.
"We have been regularly surveying for antimicrobial resistance for many years, and we've been doing that without specific funding other than well-intended industry support done on a goodwill basis in hospitals," Iredell, from the University of Sydney, said.
