Synonyms for drug-resistant
drug-resis·tant

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "drug-resistant":

   resistant

How to pronounce drug-resistant?

How to say drug-resistant in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use drug-resistant in a sentence?

1. Corey Egel:

   Any person who is colonized with any multi-drug resistant organism is at some increased risk in the future of developing an infection with that organism.

2. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency:

   With DIGET, it soon may be possible to not only confirm an influenza( or COVID-19) diagnosis, but also to determine the strain, the origin, and whether the strain is drug resistant, in addition, DIGET tools could assess the severity of disease to guide how the patient is triaged and treated.

3. Scott Roberts:

   When somebody does present with a drug-resistant bacteria or fungus and we really need to rely on one of these last-line antibiotics, it’s usually a challenge to treat from the outset. And so the patients really don’t do as well as a result, in rare circumstances, we run out of options entirely, and in that case, there’s really nothing we can do. Fortunately, those cases remain quite rare, but I am certain that with this growing antibiotic resistance problem, we’ll see these increasing frequency over time.

4. Paul Workman:

   Cancer's ability to adapt, evolve and become drug-resistant is the cause of the vast majority of deaths from the disease and the biggest challenge we face in overcoming it.

5. Yoseph Tassew:

   The potential of these new drugs means that I am seeing people with extensively drug-resistant TB walk out of the hospital who otherwise would be dead, it's frustrating that after half a century, we finally have new TB medicines that can save the lives of the sickest patients, but we can't offer this hope to all people who could immediately benefit.