If there is bacterial resistance, you will need another antibiotic to cure the infection.
If the drugs are shown to foster bacterial resistance, they could be banned from use as growth promoters in animals.
Due to bacterial resistance, different parts of the world require different antibiotics.
The issue of bacterial resistance has now become a major concern of doctors and researchers worldwide.
This mechanism is important in medicine as it can contribute to bacterial antibiotic resistance.
Paralleled to this there has been an alarming increase in bacterial resistance to existing agents.
While this treatment has been available for some time, a greater danger of bacterial resistance exists to phages than to antibiotics.
Of the patients who failed to finish their prescription, 94 percent said they feared the development of bacterial resistance.
To prevent the development of bacterial resistance to this extremely powerful antibiotic, its use is tightly regulated.
Nevertheless, the global problem of advancing bacterial resistance to newer drugs has led to renewed interest in its use.