Antibiótico 'turbinado' é nova arma contra resistência bacteriana:melhor site para escanteios

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Resistance to antibiotics has been classed by the World Health Organisation as one of the biggest threats to global health. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in the United States say they've now managed to modify one antibiotic which was becoming ineffective against one strain of melhor site para escanteios bacteria. The new version of the drug vancomycin is now so powerful they’ve labelled it as 'magic'. It's 1,000 times stronger and works in three different ways, making it much harder for the bacteria to fight back.

Bangalore is one of India's fastest growing cities, known as its Silicon Valley, because it's the melhor site para escanteios hub of the IT industry. A vibrant, modern and global city, but its traditional water sources are shrinking, and increasingly are contaminated. So many people now depend on water delivered by private tankers, owned by a clutch of operators who control supply and, it is alleged, prices.

Rosa's Fresh Pizza shop in Philadelphia in the United States offers pizza to customers at a dollar a slice. But you can pay for a slice, leave a post-it note, and that slice will be given free to people in need. Owner Mason Wartman hopes other shops will follow. He says that a little kindness could help people melhor site para escanteios turn their lives around.

Transcrição para o português:

A resistência a antibióticos foi classificada pela Organização Mundial da Saúde com uma das maiores ameaças à saúde global. Pesquisadores do Instituto Scripps nos Estados Unidos dizem que conseguiram modificar um antibiótico que estava perdendo efeito contra a variantemelhor site para escanteiosuma bactéria. A nova versão da droga vancomicina agora é tão potente que a chamarammelhor site para escanteios‘mágica’. É 1 mil vezes mais forte e agemelhor site para escanteiostrês maneiras diferentes, tornando-a bem mais difícilmelhor site para escanteiosser enfrentada pela bactéria.

Bangalore é uma das cidades que mais crescem na Índia, conhecida como seu ‘Vale do Silício’, por causa da concentraçãomelhor site para escanteiosempresasmelhor site para escanteiostecnologia. Uma cidade moderna, vibrante e global, mas suas fontesmelhor site para escanteioságua estão minguando, e cada vez mais contaminadas. Muitas pessoas agora dependemmelhor site para escanteioságua distribuída pelos caminhões-pipamelhor site para escanteiosum punhadomelhor site para escanteiosoperadoras que controlam o fornecimento e, aparentemente, os preços.

A casa Rosa’s Fresh Pizzamelhor site para escanteiosFiladélfia, nos Estados Unidos, oferece pizzas por um dólar a fatia. Mas você pode pagar por uma fatia, deixar uma notamelhor site para escanteiospost-it, e essa fatia será entreguemelhor site para escanteiosgraça a uma pessoa necessitada. O dono, Mason Wartman, espera que outras comedorias sigam o exemplo. Ele diz que um poucomelhor site para escanteiosgenerosidade pode ajudar a mudar a vidamelhor site para escanteiospessoas.

Words and phrases and definitions:

melhor site para escanteios bacteria small living things that can cause disease

melhor site para escanteios hub the main or most active part of something

melhor site para escanteios turn their lives around improve their personal situation

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Exercise:

Use one of the words or phrases from Lingohack to complete each of these sentences. Note that you may have to change the form of a word or phrase to complete the sentence correctly.

bacteria / hub / turn (their) lives around

1. Sally was a troubled teenager. She ran away from home at 15 but a decade later was taken in by a family in Lisbon who helped her __________ as a young adult.

2. __________ living in the mouths of seals and sea lions can cause a painful and potentially serious condition, with symptoms including cellulitis and debilitating joint inflammation.

3. A £38m investment in next generation electronics could help make south east Wales the __________ of a new industrial revolution, Newport council's leader has said.

Answers:

1. Sally was a troubled teenager. She ran away from home at 15 but a decade later was taken in by a family in Lisbon who helped her turn her life around as a young adult. 2. Bacteria living in the mouths of seals and sea lions can cause a painful and potentially serious condition, with symptoms including cellulitis and debilitating joint inflammation. 3. A £38m investment in next generation electronics could help make south east Wales the hub of a new industrial revolution, Newport council's leader has said.