increasing resistance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandresistance
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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resistance
noun
uk/rɪˈzɪs.təns/us/rɪˈzɪs.təns/
the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to ...
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(Definition ofincreaseandresistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Increasingresistanceto available anthelmintics prompts the search for novel drugs directed towards essential molecular or physiological targets in parasites.
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Increasingresistanceof malaria vectors to pyrethroids threatens to reduce the potency of this important method of vector control.
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So the effect ofincreasingresistanceis captured by allowing treatment costs to rise with increasing resistance or decreasing susceptibility to treatment.
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Concerns aboutincreasingresistanceto antibiotics have led to increasing interest in the use of topical antimicrobial dressings, with manufacturers responding by producing an increasing range of these dressings.
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In consequence, they did not attack communities that were peripherally or uninvolved in raiding and therebyincreasingresistanceto their authority or hostility toward their auxiliaries.
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Moreover, this report further highlights current situations regarding theincreasingresistanceto those traditional antibiotics and the emerging resistance to the newer drugs in recent years.
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Threats such as pandemic influenza, malaria and tuberculosis are a health risk because of virus mutations,increasingresistanceto antibiotics and weak health systems.
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This is the ideal recipe for furtherincreasingresistancein the future.
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Linking the liberalisation and improvement of services too closely with their privatisation only risksincreasingresistanceto any process aimed at liberalising the market.
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Secondly, it is meetingincreasingresistancein its ability to get sponsors to carry out this programme.
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Theincreasingresistanceof this disease and insufficient scientific research mean that today almost 2 million people die of it every year.
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As is known, the biggest problem with malaria is that due toincreasingresistance, new medicines have to be developed all the time.
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The use of fluoride remains pre-eminent among the measures available forincreasingresistanceto dental decay.
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In our report we say that the trouble with this expanded special programme is that, first, it is meetingincreasingresistancein enrolment.
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It is of great concern therefore that theincreasingresistanceof micro-organisms to antibiotics jeopardises many of the medical advances made in the treatment of infectious disease.
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The organization was formed in response toincreasingresistanceof the use of animals in medical experimentation, including for vivisection.
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Instead of using that form of the constraint, the monotonicallyincreasingresistancefunction used in traffic assignment can be used.
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Leprosy has shown anincreasingresistanceto dapsone.
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These can clog the plates,increasingresistanceand lowering the voltage of some individual cells in the battery.
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