antibiotic
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Antibiotic resistance has made these infections even more concerning.
From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025
Antibiotic use is driven largely by common colds, which produce secondary bacterial things like sore throat, earache, nasal congestion, sinusitis.
From Slate • Oct. 8, 2025
A 30-member Bengaluru-based biopharma firm Bugworks Research has partnered with Geneva-based non-profit Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, or GARDP, to develop a new class of antibiotics for treating serious drug-resistant infections.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2024
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health and food security, according to the World Health Organization.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2023
“No. I had a bacterial infection. Worse than most. Antibiotics weren’t touching it, and by the time they were able to get a Restricted Antibiotic Waiver, I had already lost one leg. This one, actually.”
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
Vocabulary lists containing antibiotic
Power Prefix: Anti
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Words to Live By: Bio
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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