antibiotic
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There is an antibiotic available that is known to curb symptoms, which Clare heard has helped a friend.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Poop jokes and memes aside, cyclosporiasis is a serious parasitic foodborne intestinal illness whose symptoms include nausea, fatigue, and explosive diarrhea that can last weeks or even months without antibiotic treatment.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
For those who have fallen ill, treatment includes an antibiotic called Bactrim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
But you can divide lots of other sequences of change by time to arrive at a “speed” or rate of, say, technological invention or evolution of antibiotic resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In a patient who gets only one antibiotic or inadequate doses of several, or who doesn’t take his medicine as instructed, the drug-susceptible bacilli may die off but the drug-resistant mutants will flourish.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Although most cases resolve on their own, antibiotics can be given to treat severe or prolonged infections.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Overprescribing antibiotics leads to deadly resistant bacteria, while industrial fishing, which harvests the largest adults, ultimately selects for ever-smaller fish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
This is the idea behind antibiotic adjuvants, which are companion molecules that do not kill bacteria directly but instead restore the power of antibiotics.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Luckily, the illness resolves with antibiotics, and it’s not fatal.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
If the first round of antibiotics didn’t cure a patient, a retreatment with the same drugs, plus one, was prescribed.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Power Prefix: Anti
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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