Sentence examples for resistant bugs from inspiring English sources

Livestock farms often brim with resistant bugs that can pass to humans and potentially spread resistance to other microbes.

Resistant bugs carry a gene variant that allows them to destroy the drug.

When they returned a quarter of them had picked up resistant bugs.

Mr. Thade was one of several patients that day struggling to overcome resistant bugs.

Dr. Zilinskas said that while antibiotic resistant bugs can be made now, most other super pathogens won't be feasible for the next five years.

From this germ of an observation grew one of the most curious aspects of our series: The rise in resistant bugs is cloaked in widespread and chronic secrecy.

The goal is to prevent the first Bt-resistant Colorado potato beetle from mating with a second resistant bug, unleashing a new race of superbeetles.

When resistant bacteria hop between species, that can increase the rate of evolution and, over time (through the sharing of independently evolved traits) turn a mildly resistant bug that is merely a nuisance into a serious threat.This has left researchers wondering how resistant bacteria get into animals in the first place.

If a resistant bug escapes from the laboratory, for instance, doctors may not be able to easily treat anyone who becomes infected.

In a related investigation, which has not been published, her group tested pigs living on farms and found that antibiotic-free pigs were free from MRSA, whereas the resistant bug is often found on conventional pig farms.

The bacteria that are used as probiotic organisms may have another advantage, according to researchers, in that they can multiply more efficiently than antibiotic-resistant bugs, which have to use extra energy to maintain their resistance rather than saving it for reproduction.