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  • adjective medicine resistant to multiple drugs (especially to multiple antibiotics)

Etymologies

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multi- +‎ resistant

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Examples

  • Beginning in 1992, a sustained outbreak of multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections was noted in our 1,000-bed hospital in Barcelona, Spain, resulting in considerable overuse of imipenem, to which the organisms were uniformly susceptible.

    Behe's Test 2008

  • But patients 'tolerance decreases with time, and multiresistant variants of the virus emerge.

    The Next Steps to Take in Beating AIDS Luc Montagnier 2008

  • Up first this half hour, a 12-year-old New York boy dies of the multiresistant superbug.

    CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2007 2007

  • Unlike other salmonella strains, multiresistant Salmonella typhimurium DT 104 is therefore likely to retain its drug resistance genes even when antimicrobial drugs are no longer used.

    Chapter 2 1997

  • Michael lisanti, a overnight prozac delivery in the synaptosomes of auranofin biology, peroxisomal oncology, and cytopenia and multiresistant messenger at jefferson medical college at thomas jefferson university in philadelphia, said in a basada news release.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • Currently, TBTC is completing a study for an innovative treatment for latent tuberculosis infection, and has begun its first clinical trial in patients with multiresistant tuberculosis.

    D Mag - News 2010

  • Meticulous laboratory experiments have enable the scientists to identify the chemical structure of one of the three substances that can be used as antibiotics, and which they now know act against multiresistant bacteria.

    innovations-report 2009

  • SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The so-called superbug MRSA, a multiresistant strain of staphylococcus usually found in hospitals, has been discovered for the first time on US beaches, a study said.

    WN.com - Articles related to Vietnam has new human bird flu case: Paper 2009

  • SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The so-called superbug MRSA, a multiresistant strain of staphylococcus usually found in hospitals, has been discovered for the first time on US beaches, a study said.

    WN.com - Articles related to Vietnam has new human bird flu case: Paper 2009

  • Meticulous laboratory experiments have enable the scientists to identify the chemical structure of one of the three substances that can be used as antibiotics, and which they now know act against multiresistant bacteria.

    Medgadget 2009

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