Acquired Drug Resistance

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ADR
Pronunciation
/əkˈwaɪərd drəg rɪˈzɪstəns/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. The study on the relationship between acquired drug resistance to methotrexate and global DNA methylation
  2. Background & Objective : Drug resistance is a major factor in chemotherapeutic failure of leukemia. Multidrug resistant cell lines are the good models for investigating the mechanisms and reversal of acquired drug resistance.
  3. Because of the natural and acquired drug resistance, Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistants to many antibiotics, and has caused great difficulties to the clinical treatment.
  4. The initial and acquired drug resistance rates increased annually.
  5. A Study on the Primary and Acquired Drug Resistance(ADR) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Conditions of Post-retreatment MDR

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