How to Use tetracycline in a Sentence

tetracycline

noun

• There, the insects might be exposed to tetracycline which is used to treat fruit trees and is found in human waste.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
• There is at least one drug, tetracycline, that over time can break down into a substance that can damage the kidney.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 8 July 2022
• Minocycline is part of a group of antibiotics called tetracyclines.
  — Angela Palmer, Verywell Health, 3 May 2023
• Esophageal burns caused by tetracycline usually heal on their own once the medication is stopped.
  — H Lee Kagan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2014
• His discovery is all the more stunning for having been made in 1928—before tetracycline, acetaminophen, the mumps vaccine.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Oxitec uses the antibiotic tetracycline to raise its bugs and mass produce them.
  — Melody Petersenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• Armelagos is continuing to look for the tetracycline in the bones of different cultures.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2010
• In particular, sales for tetracycline, which is used to treat a number infections in humans, rose 12%.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 13 Dec. 2019
• Then the barnacles were stained with tetracycline hydrochloride, which fluoresces under UV light, to track where new shell growth occurred.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2023
• Like steroids do for humans, antibiotics such as tetracycline can bulk some animals up more quickly.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• The outbreak strain of C. jejuni could withstand three antibiotics: tetracycline, nalidixic acid, and ciprofloxacin.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2018
• But other types, such as erythromycin and tetracycline, may not be recommended or may be reserved only for more severe cases or short-term use.
  — Nikhita Mahtani, SELF, 24 Apr. 2019
• In this case, male mosquitoes have been modified to carry a gene that makes their female progeny dependent on the antibiotic tetracycline—and thus fated to die in the wild.
  — Donavyn Coffey, Scientific American, 14 May 2021
• There is no evidence that chlamydia has acquired resistance to tetracyclines and only scant evidence that syphilis has.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2023
• But by 1959, strains of Shigella had already developed resistance to tetracycline.
  — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2018
• This strain has a high-level of resistance to azithromycin and resistance to ceftriaxone, cefixime, cefotaxime, ciprofloxacin and tetracycline.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Other antibiotics found to raise the risk of miscarriage include most macrolides, quinolones, tetracyclines, sulfonamides and metronidazole.
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 May 2017
• Doxycycline and tetracycline, two other acne treatments, also belong to this group.
  — Angela Palmer, Verywell Health, 3 May 2023
• The first is a phototoxic reaction, often seen with certain antibiotics such as tetracycline.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 6 July 2023
• Using genetic-engineering techniques, the company altered the male mosquitoes to pass down a gene that makes females need a dash of the antibiotic tetracycline to survive.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• The company had developed a male mosquito named OX513A, programmed to die before adulthood unless it was grown in water that contained the antibiotic tetracycline.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
• Aureomycin spawned a class of antibiotics called the tetracyclines still used for everything from soft tissue infections to malaria prophylaxis.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 5 June 2018
• This type of antibiotic efflux is a common problem with the tetracycline antibiotics, often used to treat infections like urinary tract infections, chlamydia and acne.
  — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• Livestock began to use more antibiotics than was available to humans, and illnesses that once responded readily to antibiotics like tetracycline and penicillin became harder to cure.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
• So the district then reached out to British company Oxitec in 2012, which had previously developed a male mosquito that was programmed to die before adulthood unless it was grown in water that contained the antibiotic tetracycline.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• However, the tetracycline and doxycycline families of antibiotics have been found to cause discoloration in babies' teeth after the fourth month of pregnancy because these meds affect the calcification—or the hardening—of their pearly whites.
  — Richard H. Schwarz, Parents, 23 Aug. 2023
• Exposed to antibiotics commonly used on pig farms, the bacterium acquired resistance to methicillin and tetracycline before jumping back to humans.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2012
• Medicines that may cause a phototoxic reaction include tetracycline antibiotics and amiodarone.2 This will look more like an exaggerated sunburn.
  — Sarah Klein, Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• The findings suggest antibiotic treatments that combine conventional antibiotics such as tetracycline with drugs that block the multidrug efflux pump would help prevent the spread of resistance, according to Lesterlin.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2019
• Other tetracyclines, the antibiotic class to which doxycycline belongs, have long been used in livestock production — to the concern of many infectious disease experts, who worry this fuels drug-resistant infections that can affect humans.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024