Table 5 shows the number and corresponding percentages of frequently isolated bacterial species that were resistant to multiple antibiotics.
Multiple antibiotics are given to reduce the ability of the bacteria to develop resistance.
Mrs. Gamble required 18 months of treatment with multiple antibiotics and steroids.
They are currently being treated with multiple antibiotics and additional surgeries.
Typhoid fever, which is caused by the bacterium salmonella typhi, is treated with antibiotics, but resistance to multiple antibiotics is increasing.
Antibiotic tolerance in biofilms is also associated with the emergence of isogenic subpopulations of antibiotic-sensitive bacteria that acquire tolerance to multiple antibiotics due to stochastically induced dormant states6,7.
Blango, M. G. & Mulvey, M. A. Persistence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli in the face of multiple antibiotics.
Normally a resident of the gastrointestinal tract, extensive use of antibiotics has resulted in the rise of E. faecalis strains that are resistant to multiple antibiotics.
When multiple antibiotics are available, however, POCRD may slow the rise of resistance even as more patients receive antibiotic treatment, belying the conventional wisdom that antibiotics are "exhaustible resources" whose increased use necessarily promotes the rise of resistance.
* Infection has become resistant to multiple antibiotics.
