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In other words, the technological fix of herbicide-resistant crops is transient, requiring continual reinvigoration by more advanced technology.
Pharmacological strategies for resistant depression may be useful in the elderly despite their increased risk of toxicity.
Both hypotheses predict that red wheats will be more sprout resistant than white wheats.
She is forceful, knowing, resistant, self-effacing, domestic, public, and self-ironizing at the same time.
Charaxines, medium-sized satyrines, morphines and brassolines may be vulnerable to extinction after habitat fragmentation while small-sized satyrines may be relatively resistant.
Specimens were marked on the wing with a unique number using a water-resistant pen.
States with significant labor movements (measured by numbers of strikes) were more resistant to liberalized incorporation law.
Such an approach would be an important step in improving the overall use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and curtailing the development of resistant micro-organisms.
The vulnerability is specific to photoreceptors; other retinal neurons appeared resistant to the exposures tested.
The third phosphorylated species appears relatively resistant to dephosphorylation for reasons that are not yet clear.
Previous studies have suggested that mammalian spermatozoal chromatin is resistant to various physical and chemical disruptions.
The a-wave may be resistant because the photoreceptor can increase glycolysis during hypoxemia.
However, in the best of circumstances, judicial systems tend to be resistant to change.
Although it is true that resistant and evasive responses are commonplace, these are managed with considerable care.
Axial symptomatology (postural stability, gait, mimic and voice) was more resistant than the distal one, as often described in the literature.
In resistant snails, haemocytes infiltrate the tissues surrounding young sporocysts and form multi-layered cellular encapsulations that result in larval destruction within 24-48 hours.
Molecular characteristics of a protease-resistant, amyloidogenic and neurotoxic peptide homologous to residues 106-126 of the prion protein.
The combined effects of less erosion-resistant marly limestone and the columnar jointing of basalts caused the rapid migration of the knickpoint toward the upstream reach.
Moreover, not only did the parties lag behind the pace of socio-economic change; they were also resistant to new ideas.
In those cases, the organisms were highly resistant to tetracycline and the resistance was mediated by plasmids.
When both loci are homozygous for a resistant allele, worms are highly resistant.
Our study highlights one type of environmental stress in which resistant, genetically manipulated mosquitoes may have to compete with natural vector populations.
Other studies have shown previous antimicrobial treatment to be linked to an increased risk of developing resistant salmonellosis [20].
In this case, hosts may be infected by the parasites but more resistant ones are harmed less.
Two samples from patients with ' resistant ' infections are of particular concern, because they showed neither the mutant pfcrt nor the mutant pfmdr1.
During antibiotic treatment, sensitive strains are reduced or eliminated and the normally outnumbered resistant strains are more likely to grow.
Teachers rated their relationships with children as more conflictual when children were classified as having resistant, avoidant, or unclassifiable insecure child-teacher attachment organizations.
The synthesis of antimicrobial compounds by resistant biofilm bacteria could help to defend against invading bacteria and facilitate establishment of monospecies biofilm infections.
Our data show that the 23-valent vaccine covers 99 % of invasive isolates which were found to be non-susceptible to penicillin or resistant to erythromycin.
On the other hand, older people may be more resistant to the effect of others drugs such as beta-receptor agonists.
Two allelespecific fragments were generated according to whether the resistant and\\or the susceptible alleles were present.
The mentality of the gold standard proved resistant to change even under the most pressing economic circumstances.
Here it is probable that drug selection has favoured the emergence of resistant genotypes.
In schools where carriage was found, both sensitive and resistant strains were isolated.
Lastly, evidence suggests that apparently resistant host genotypes may sometimes be able to act as subclinical carriers of infection.
Treatment just before the antibodies are triggered results in a very high probability of selecting a drug-resistant population.
Moreover, the high proportion of isolates resistant to kanamycin and nalidixic acid is striking.
The use of genetic engineering to produce pest resistant transgenic plants represents one of many current approaches aimed at increasing agricultural productivity.
The transmission of resistant bacteria from agricultural environments to humans may worsen such problems.
Teaching acting, he believes, is 'the most personal thing in the world', very individual, and resistant to codification.
Indeed, the resistant trait will only become prevalent under the selective pressure exerted by the parasite, provided no significant costs are linked to the attribute.
The vulnerable properties of children's acquisition under conditions of impairment should not override recognition of the resistant properties their acquisition capacity also exhibits.
Robustness - they are adaptable to external influences rather than being resistant or overwhelmed, often exchanging energy with their environment.
Another very deviant child was surly and extremely resistant as an accompaniment to her fearful, shy behavior.
Specific binding of normal prion protein to the scrapie form via a localized domain initiates its conversion to the protease-resistant state.
The widespread use of such programmes may lead to the selection of drug-resistant strains of gastrointestinal nematodes.
From a production stance, the greater melodic complexity of diphthongs may make them less resistant to the syllable reduction processes that apply to long vowels.
The use of murine models is limited, because mice are naturally resistant to this parasite species.
On the other hand, the expression of fibronectin was variable in susceptible and resistant mice.
Is the microbial community in a soil with reduced catabolic diversity less resistant to stress or disturbance?
Even between bacterial strains of the same genus the greatest degree of inhibition was observed to occur between isogenic but antibiotic-resistant mutants.
Altogether these observations of differential toxicity of oxygen for drug-resistant and susceptible trichomonads indicate deficiencies in oxygen defence systems of the metronidazole-resistant trichomonads.
The prevalence of strains resistant to at least one antibiotic was very high.
Levels of resistance to other antimicrobials were also high and all penicillin resistant strains were resistant to at least one other agent.
The resistant rates varied between 2 and 5 % during the past 4 years.
The data indicate that the nuclei were resistant to freeze-drying.
Other notable resistances were to cefalexin (10.7 %) and chloramphenicol (3.6 %) ; no isolates were resistant to ceftriaxone.
The distribution of the cod population in 2 distinct groups, susceptible or resistant hosts, may, however, not be a realistic model.
Opa-typing of the 73 ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates revealed a total of 25 opa-types, 24 of which were represented by single isolates.
The perceivable drug residues in animal products, the increasing prevalence of anthelmintic-resistant strains of helminths and high cost of conventional anthelmintics is alarming.
Grazing management and its relationship with anthelmintic control is another important point in the development of resistant nematode populations.
The rapidity with which drug selection appears indicates that the resistant alleles are pre-existing in the wild populations.
The organism is rapidly becoming resistant to nalidixic acid, leaving few treatment options.
Thus, all tropical areas are not necessarily resistant to exotic species.
Due to the limited number of resistant isolates, caution should be taken in the interpretation of these data.
A total of 215 nalidixic acid-resistant campylobacter isolates were included in this study.
Surveillance on drug resistant pathogens in the feed-food chain is essential.
To improve knowledge of mobile genetic elements carrying the resistance genes, some molecular features were also investigated within isolates resistant to three or more antibiotics.
None of the 107 isolates was resistant to any of the other antimicrobials used for susceptibility testing.
Strains resistant to four or more antibiotics were considered as multiresistant.
Less than 1 % of the isolates were multi-drug resistant.
According to recommended breakpoints none of the nalidixic acid resistant strains could be classified as resistant to ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin [25, 26].
The fourth isolate was also resistant to erythromycin.
Our final aim was to assess the influence of previous antibiotic therapy and norfloxacin prophylaxis on carriage of these resistant bacterial strains.
More than 57 % of the shigellae strains were resistant to four or more antibiotics.
Resistance to ciprofloxacin was 68- 96 % but less than 20 % of isolates in most hospitals were resistant to chloramphenicol.
Strains were recorded as susceptible, intermediately resistant or resistant based on inhibition zone sizes.
Healthy children may act as an important reservoir of resistant strains of the organism [18].
Diamonds : susceptible allele frequency is 0n5, heterozygotes are resistant.
Almost all the strains in this study were resistant to ampicillin and co-trimoxazole.
One isolate each was resistant to ampicillin-sulbactam, amoxicillin- clavulanic acid and cefuroxime.
In addition, our data indicated that it is also possible to produce healthy animals, which do not harbour multidrug-resistant strains.
Pneumococcal isolates that had erythromycin level of 1 g\\ml and 1 g\\ml were recorded as sensitive and resistant respectively.
Other problems have been notoriously resistant to attack; these usually involve some unpredictable processing order of the elements.
They loved titles and titled people- they are no non-resistants and their vision is clouded by wealth and worldly importance- though there are many kindhearted and munificent men among them.
Human beings, whether autistic or not, are notoriously resistant to being pushed into the same mould.
In contrast, 100% of heterozygotes will have at least one resistant allele.
While prostatic epithelium is resistant to neoplastic transformation, it is not resistant to the development of hyperplasia.
Variations of economic pattern were then more striking; rural society was a matrix much more localized and resistant to change than it is today.
Genetic manipulations enable us to move induced resistance traits from resistant varieties and species into susceptible varieties that have desirable agronomic characteristics.
In another example, a child might display high levels of avoidant, resistant, and secure behavior throughout data collection, suggesting no stable, coherent attachment pattern.
Such reactions may be seen as perpetuating the immaturity of those with resistant histories and the expectations for rejection of those with avoidant histories.
A moderate amount of secure behavior and very little resistant behavior were reported through the 54th day of placement.
In other words, they tended to turn away from avoidant behaviors and show frustration or anger in response to resistant behaviors.
Attachment theorists proposed a relationship between insecure attachment (anxious - resistant) and the development of anxiety in children.
Infants were classified as secure, insecure-avoidant, insecure-resistant, insecure- disorganized, or insecure-other using traditional scoring systems.
Moreover, individual differences in emotion regulation become deeply entrenched, they reliably predict psychopathological outcomes, and they become increasingly resistant to intervention as children mature.
Resistant hosts include all patches with resistant livestock.
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