Sentence examples for germ resistant from inspiring English sources

A ferocious germ resistant to many types of antibiotics had increased tenfold on chicken breasts, the most commonly eaten meat on the nation's dinner tables.

Infections from MRSA, a bloodstream germ resistant to most antibiotics, and Clostridium difficile, a bug that causes diarrhoea, have been falling since the government set targets to reduce them.

According to experts, though, the best type of reusable bottles are ones made of materials like stainless steel (which may actually be more germ resistant, Shape.com reported).

These changes can make the germs resistant to the antibiotics meant to kill them.

Unaids and the World Health Organization acknowledged that the more the drug is used, the more danger there is of creating germs resistant to it.

It would offer incentives for the development of antibiotics to treat infections caused by germs resistant to existing drugs.

The discovery of germs resistant to E coli in many supermarket foods follows on revelations by the Guardian that MRSA-resistant bacteria was present in about a tenth of UK supermarket pork products.

E coli germs resistant to all of the currently used antibiotics have been found in UK supermarket meat, with a quarter of chickens found to contain the deadly superbugs, in research from Cambridge University.

But they are also spurred by the fear that biotechnology can be used to create new types of pathogens or to make natural pathogens even more dangerous -- by putting in genes to make germs resistant to antibiotics, for example.

So-called superbugs, germs resistant to one or more of the medications meant to kill them, represent a new villain in the global fight for human health and welfare.

The menace posed by germs resistant to powerful antibiotics was all too apparent when a deadly, drug- resistant form of pneumonia bacteria struck the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., last year.