When bacteria become resistant to first line treatments, the risk of complications and death is increased.

CNN: Antibiotics: Misuse puts you and others at risk

By the late 1980s enterococcus bacteria started becoming resistant to even the last line of defense, vancomycin.

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China's Huawei submerged its Ascend D2 phone for the benefit of attendees at the Mobile World Congress, and Kyocera added a water-resistant Hydro smartphone to its line last summer.

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Due next year:a line of stain-resistant food containers that eliminate the reddish tinge caused by the acids in tomato sauce.

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Due next year: the first line of stain-resistant food containers, which eliminate that evil reddish tinge caused by the acids in tomato sauce.

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Our overuse of antibiotics has helped foster more numerous and stronger antibiotic-resistant microbes, to the point that we're running out of "last line" drugs to fight even the most resistant bacteria.

CNN: Free-riding microbes: stronger, more powerful, and our fault

But he takes a hard line toward people with drug-resistant TB.

NPR: TB Traveler Exposes Diagnosis Problems

For confirmed XDR-TB, in which the bacterium is resistant to the most potent first- and second-line TB medicines, the WHO recommends that a proper combination of any medicine left among those available, dictated by knowledge of susceptibility, should be used.

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XDR-TB is a particularly dangerous form of the disease that is resistant not only to the two most potent TB drugs, but also a handful of second-line drugs.

WSJ: Dangerous TB Patient Nabbed On U.S. Border

The EX-G1 is designed with shock-resistant elements throughout the camera, both inside and out, creating a smart look in a slim-line camera with functional beauty.

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