Sunday, February 06, 2005

Antibiotics don't seem to increase bacterial resistance

from USNews.com
Doctors are often reluctant to prescribe antibiotics for people with chronic sinus infections because bacteria can develop resistance to the antibiotics. Researchers in Boston looked for resistant bacteria in those patients.

What they found: Patients did not tend to have more resistant bacterial populations over time. If anything, their bacteria may have become less resistant to antibiotics.

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