Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Tolerance to a usually toxic substance as a result of exposure to a similarly acting substance.
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Examples
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And she's hoping for a new cocktail, hoping that her experience with Crixivan didn't leave her with "" cross-resistance '' to the other protease inhibitors.
The End Of Aids? 2008
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It has been shown in labs that there is a potential for cross-resistance between some antibiotics and triclosan.
Q&A: Germ Expert 2007
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Artemisinin derivatives presently show no cross-resistance with known antimalarials and as such are important for treating severe malaria in areas of multidrug resistance; however, they require long treatment courses and when used alone, recrudescence may occur.
Chapter 2 1998
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The possibility of resistance, or cross-resistance, to synthetic JH1, methoprene and hydroprene, has been indicated in insecticide-resistant strains of Tribolium castaneum.
Chapter 7 1994
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Various degrees of cross-resistance among protease inhibitors have been observed.
unknown title 2011
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This indeed proved to be the case, so they turned their attention to examining cross-resistance to other antibiotics.
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While each of the antibiotics tested (ampicillin, norfloxacin, kanamycin, tetracycline and chloramphenicol) is capable of some degree of cross-resistance, quite strikingly, ampicillin appears to give rise to the widest range of resistance.
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They next conducted a series of experiments to show that bacteria initially subjected to a sub-lethal dose of one of the antibiotics exhibited cross-resistance to a number of the other antibiotics.
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They next conducted a series of experiments to show that bacteria initially subjected to a sub-lethal dose of one of the antibiotics exhibited cross-resistance to a number of the other antibiotics.
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However, new research from Mike Kohanski, Mark DePristo, and Jim Collins at Boston University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute shows that low doses of antibiotics can produce mutant strains that are sensitive to the applied antibiotic but have cross-resistance to other antibiotics.
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