These diseases, ranging from dengue fever and malaria to West Nile virus and yellow fever, are the cause of millions of deaths worldwide, yet control methods have become a dilemma due to the development of resistance by mosquitoes and increased concern about health and environmental hazards.
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The control group showed a decrease in soleus muscle mass and strength, the development of insulin resistance, and a loss of bone mineral density and resistance to breakage.
Dr Shulman added that the reduction could be a contributing factor to the development of insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes because of its effect on fat burning and mitochondria production.
Dr Dagan said day care centres are ideal environments for the development of such resistance because they are associated with a high rate of respiratory infections that leads to a high rate of antibiotic use.
Even if it is not, the destruction of pancreatic cells that comes with diabetes may be unrelated to the development of insulin resistance.
Professor David Back, an expert in HIV pharmacology at the University of Liverpool said development of drug resistance was the main problem with current therapy.
Shortening treatment time from the current minimum of six to two months would keep an additional one million people on TB treatment each year, reducing deaths and slowing the development of drug resistance.
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Yet there remains a powerful bureaucratic resistance to the development of a technology which could make a generation of much-loved aircraft irrelevant.
Maryhelen Kincaid, land use chairwoman of the East Columbia Neighborhood Association, was a touch surprised at the relative lack of fierce resistance against the development.
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They also claim that diet, insulin resistance, smoking or patterns of infection may affect the development of both cancer and pre-eclampsia and their effects may differ between populations.
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, joined the protesters to sign a "pledge of resistance" to fracking and discuss utilizing civil disobedience if shale gas development is permitted.
Yet growing bacterial resistance to existing drugs and novel microbial threats make the urgency which drove the original development of penicillin as vital as ever.
Meeting the threat of both common and rare infections that continue to develop resistance over time is a race between drug development and bacterial evolution.
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