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This reflects the importance of the dosage and duration when taking antibiotics. This video shows hormesis[1] at its best: How bacteria is able to develop resi
by fasteo 10y ago
This reflects the importance of the dosage and duration when taking antibiotics.
This video shows hormesis[1] at its best: How bacteria is able to develop resistance over an increasing dose of antibiotic. I doubt that they would have been able to survive when exposed from 0 to x1000.
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248601/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248601/
- mkagenius 10y ago> I doubt that they would have been able to survive when exposed from 0 to x1000 Did they control for this? I assume they did though :)
- DanBC 10y ago> I doubt that they would have been able to survive when exposed from 0 to x1000. But neither would the patient.
- fasteo 10y agoThe clinical dosage is made just for this: Kill the bacteria; don't kill the host