People undergoing treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics typically develop secondary problems caused by damage to these beneficial symbiotes (in symbiosis, both parties benefit from the relationship).

I settled on a jumbo pack of broad-spectrum antibiotics.

The cephalosporins are broad-spectrum antibiotics that are used for the treatment of septicaemia, pneumonia, meningitis, biliary tract infections, peritonitis, and urinary tract infections.

Quinolones are artificial broad-spectrum antibiotics that are often fluorinated to enhance their effects.

Most metabolites produced by lichens are structurally and functionally similar to broad-spectrum antibiotics while few are associated respectively to antiseptic similarities.

Without effective antibiotics, hip operations or caesarean sections, and even chemotherapy, would become much riskier.

Questions have also been raised over whether the most effective antibiotics were administered.

Simple infections could become deadly while whole swaths of modern medicine, from chemotherapy to hip replacements, could become impossible without effective antibiotics, the specialists say.

Without effective antibiotics, the elderly and infirm could once again die of the common illnesses that carried off their great-grandparents.

Lacking effective antibiotics then, doctors recommended a drier climate for him.

Milder cases can be treated with oral antibiotics but some require hospital admission and intravenous antibiotics.

Before that he was treated with intravenous antibiotics and was monitored daily.

I was diagnosed with an infection caused by the tsunami water and was put on intravenous antibiotics.

If infected, you can expect to spend a week in hospital on intravenous antibiotics.

It can often only be treated with expensive, intravenous antibiotics.

Milder cases generally respond well to oral antibiotics such as amoxicillin or clarithromycin, but full recovery can take a month or longer.

Milder cases can be treated with oral antibiotics but some require hospital admission and intravenous antibiotics.

If it's a chlamydophila infection, they need oral antibiotics.

Topical or oral antibiotics are often prescribed in more stubborn cases.

The next step might be taking oral antibiotics, or going on to some types of birth control pill, which can be very effective in preventing acne.

Or never coughing so exaggeratedly that they make themselves retch in the hope that this might act as the tipping point in my deliberations over whether to prescribe an antibiotic.

But some doctors do prescribe the antibiotic azithromycin because, in addition to its antibacterial properties, azithromycin also has anti-inflammatory and immuno-modulatory properties.

Prior to the early 1990s, it was common practice for the physician performing the procedure to prescribe an antibiotic to take for a few days to prevent an infection.

The doc prescribed some antibiotics for my poorly leg.

He'll probably be prescribed some antibiotics.

However, we are now seeing the bugs becoming smarter and starting to resist the antibiotics we have available.

Bacteria multiply and mutate rapidly, so the more we expose them to antibiotics the more likely a random mutation will occur that resists the antibiotic.

Ironically, it was ancient bacteria that originally developed most of the antibiotics that we now use, and other bacteria that evolved ways to defend against and resist the antibiotics.