Antibiotic
noun
A medicine that kills or slows the growth of bacteria.
The doctor prescribed an antibiotic to treat the infection.
Often appears as...
- prescribe an antibiotic
- antibiotic resistance
adjective
Relating to antibiotics or their effects.
The antibiotic effect of this medicine will help to fight the infection.
Often appears as...
- antibiotic therapy
- antibiotic medicine
noun
A medicine that kills or slows the growth of bacteria.
The doctor prescribed an antibiotic to treat the infection.
Often appears as...
- prescribe an antibiotic
- antibiotic resistance
adjective
Relating to antibiotics or their effects.
The antibiotic effect of this medicine will help to fight the infection.
Often appears as...
- antibiotic therapy
- antibiotic medicine
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Frequency
The term 'antibiotic' is common in medical contexts but not in everyday conversation.
In the hospital, antibiotics are used daily.
Pro Tip 2/3Warnings of Overuse
When discussing antibiotics, there's often a warning against overuse to prevent resistance.
Overusing antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Applicability
Antibiotics treat bacterial infections, not viruses like the flu or common cold.
Colds are viral, so antibiotics won't help.
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Frequency
The term 'antibiotic' is common in medical contexts but not in everyday conversation.
In the hospital, antibiotics are used daily.
Pro Tip 2/3Warnings of Overuse
When discussing antibiotics, there's often a warning against overuse to prevent resistance.
Overusing antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Applicability
Antibiotics treat bacterial infections, not viruses like the flu or common cold.
Colds are viral, so antibiotics won't help.
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Frequency
The term 'antibiotic' is common in medical contexts but not in everyday conversation.
In the hospital, antibiotics are used daily.
Pro Tip 2/3Warnings of Overuse
When discussing antibiotics, there's often a warning against overuse to prevent resistance.
Overusing antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Applicability
Antibiotics treat bacterial infections, not viruses like the flu or common cold.
Colds are viral, so antibiotics won't help.
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Quorum sensing: Bacteria...
delighted to be back to give you a little progress about what we've been doing in quorum sensing and so today I want to tell you one story about how we're taking what we learned about these bacteria talking together and trying to interfere with that conversation to make a fundamentally new kind of antibiotic and so the story I'll tell you about
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What causes antibiotic...
Other scientists are investigating alternate solutions, such as phage therapy or using vaccines to prevent infections. Most importantly, curbing the excessive and unnecessary use of antibiotics, such as for minor infections that can resolve on their own, as well as changing medical practice to prevent hospital infections,
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The past, present and...
research to discover the genetic consequences of the Black Death has the potential to be hugely beneficial. Today, the threat of an epidemic on the scale of the Black Death has been largely eliminated thanks to antibiotics. But the bubonic plague continues to kill a few thousand people worldwide every year,
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Bonnie Bassler: The...
that they communicate with these molecules. Of course, I've also told you that one of the important things they do is to initiate pathogenicity using quorum sensing. So we What if we made these bacteria so they can't talk or they can't hear? Couldn't these be new kinds of antibiotics?
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Stopping Pandemics, An...
all of us who have been born since world war ii have spent our lives in above um largely without infectious diseases and certainly without pandemics um and for me this is personal because well world war ii after that the antibiotics came in and eliminated
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How the food you eat...
for exactly which good bacteria a robust gut needs, but we do know that it's important for a healthy microbiome to have a variety of bacterial species. Many factors affect our microbiomes, including our environment, medications like antibiotics,
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What is the tragedy of...
That's a simplified example, but the tragedy of the commons plays out in the more complex systems of real life, too. The overuse of antibiotics has led to short-term gains in livestock production and in treating common illnesses,
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Why is pneumonia so...
which may include either antibacterial or antiviral treatments. Treatment with antibiotics helps the body get the infection under control. As the pathogen is cleared out, the body gradually expels or absorbs fluid and dead cells.
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Is human evolution...
sometimes combined with infectious diseases, would have killed us. Antibiotics, vaccines, clean water and good sanitation all make differences between our genes less important. Similarly, our ability to cure childhood cancers,
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Baby Elephant Has Broken...
fractured bone could be fatal the antibiotics should save her life so the young cough like this should heal very fast miro is coming round but she's totally confused
Video examples
Quorum sensing: Bacteria...
delighted to be back to give you a little progress about what we've been doing in quorum sensing and so today I want to tell you one story about how we're taking what we learned about these bacteria talking together and trying to interfere with that conversation to make a fundamentally new kind of antibiotic and so the story I'll tell you about
Video examples
What causes antibiotic...
Other scientists are investigating alternate solutions, such as phage therapy or using vaccines to prevent infections. Most importantly, curbing the excessive and unnecessary use of antibiotics, such as for minor infections that can resolve on their own, as well as changing medical practice to prevent hospital infections,
Video examples
The past, present and...
research to discover the genetic consequences of the Black Death has the potential to be hugely beneficial. Today, the threat of an epidemic on the scale of the Black Death has been largely eliminated thanks to antibiotics. But the bubonic plague continues to kill a few thousand people worldwide every year,
Video examples
Bonnie Bassler: The...
that they communicate with these molecules. Of course, I've also told you that one of the important things they do is to initiate pathogenicity using quorum sensing. So we What if we made these bacteria so they can't talk or they can't hear? Couldn't these be new kinds of antibiotics?
Video examples
Stopping Pandemics, An...
all of us who have been born since world war ii have spent our lives in above um largely without infectious diseases and certainly without pandemics um and for me this is personal because well world war ii after that the antibiotics came in and eliminated
Video examples
How the food you eat...
for exactly which good bacteria a robust gut needs, but we do know that it's important for a healthy microbiome to have a variety of bacterial species. Many factors affect our microbiomes, including our environment, medications like antibiotics,
Video examples
What is the tragedy of...
That's a simplified example, but the tragedy of the commons plays out in the more complex systems of real life, too. The overuse of antibiotics has led to short-term gains in livestock production and in treating common illnesses,
Video examples
Why is pneumonia so...
which may include either antibacterial or antiviral treatments. Treatment with antibiotics helps the body get the infection under control. As the pathogen is cleared out, the body gradually expels or absorbs fluid and dead cells.
Video examples
Is human evolution...
sometimes combined with infectious diseases, would have killed us. Antibiotics, vaccines, clean water and good sanitation all make differences between our genes less important. Similarly, our ability to cure childhood cancers,
Video examples
Baby Elephant Has Broken...
fractured bone could be fatal the antibiotics should save her life so the young cough like this should heal very fast miro is coming round but she's totally confused
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Richard Carmona
American Public Servant
Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?
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Stephen Colbert
American Comedian
I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.
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Robert Winston
British Scientist
We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
American Writer
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.
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Vaclav Smil
Czechoslovakian Scientist
Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we'll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible.
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Selman Waksman
Russian Scientist
In the development of antibiotics, the soil microbiological population has contributed more than its share. It is to the soil that the microbiologists came in search of new antibacterial agents.
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Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese Scientist
I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.
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Nargis Fakhri
American Actress
I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.
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Tom Frieden
American Public Servant
The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned we are. It basically shows us that the end of the road isn't very far away for antibiotics.
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Joel Fuhrman
American Scientist
Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.
Quote examples
Richard Carmona
American Public Servant
Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?
Quote examples
Stephen Colbert
American Comedian
I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.
Quote examples
Robert Winston
British Scientist
We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem.
Quote examples
Jonathan Safran Foer
American Writer
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.
Quote examples
Vaclav Smil
Czechoslovakian Scientist
Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we'll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible.
Quote examples
Selman Waksman
Russian Scientist
In the development of antibiotics, the soil microbiological population has contributed more than its share. It is to the soil that the microbiologists came in search of new antibacterial agents.
Quote examples
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese Scientist
I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.
Quote examples
Nargis Fakhri
American Actress
I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.
Quote examples
Tom Frieden
American Public Servant
The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned we are. It basically shows us that the end of the road isn't very far away for antibiotics.
Quote examples
Joel Fuhrman
American Scientist
Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.
Example 1 of 10
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