How to Use tetracycline in a Sentence

tetracycline

noun
  • There, the insects might be exposed to tetracycline which is used to treat fruit trees and is found in human waste.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Minocycline is part of a group of antibiotics called tetracyclines.
    — Angela Palmer, Verywell Health, 3 May 2023
  • There is at least one drug, tetracycline, that over time can break down into a substance that can damage the kidney.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 8 July 2022
  • Esophageal burns caused by tetracycline usually heal on their own once the medication is stopped.
    — H Lee Kagan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2014
  • Like steroids do for humans, antibiotics such as tetracycline can bulk some animals up more quickly.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Oxitec uses the antibiotic tetracycline to raise its bugs and mass produce them.
    — Melody Petersenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • But some narcotics can cause heartburn—in addition to being habit-forming—so discuss your options with a healthcare provider. Antibiotics Antibiotics like tetracyclines (a class of broad-spectrum antibiotics) that are used to treat common bacterial infections can also cause heartburn.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • These include quinolones such as Cipro (ciprofloxacin) and tetracyclines such as Doryx (doxycycline).
    — Megan Nunn, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But other types, such as erythromycin and tetracycline, may not be recommended or may be reserved only for more severe cases or short-term use.
    — Nikhita Mahtani, SELF, 24 Apr. 2019
  • Armelagos is continuing to look for the tetracycline in the bones of different cultures.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2010
  • There is no evidence that chlamydia has acquired resistance to tetracyclines and only scant evidence that syphilis has.
    — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Doxycycline and tetracycline, two other acne treatments, also belong to this group.
    — Angela Palmer, Verywell Health, 3 May 2023
  • After four months, the bacteria growing inside chickens on the farm that had not been fed tetracycline also harbored resistance to the drug.
    — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
  • In particular, sales for tetracycline, which is used to treat a number infections in humans, rose 12%.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 13 Dec. 2019
  • These keep tetracycline antibiotics from getting fully absorbed.
    — Megan Nunn, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
  • The first is a phototoxic reaction, often seen with certain antibiotics such as tetracycline.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • His discovery is all the more stunning for having been made in 1928—before tetracycline, acetaminophen, the mumps vaccine.
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • If taking tetracycline or quinolone antibiotics, discuss the timing of zinc supplementation with a healthcare provider.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Then the barnacles were stained with tetracycline hydrochloride, which fluoresces under UV light, to track where new shell growth occurred.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Other antibiotics found to raise the risk of miscarriage include most macrolides, quinolones, tetracyclines, sulfonamides and metronidazole.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 May 2017
  • This strain has a high-level of resistance to azithromycin and resistance to ceftriaxone, cefixime, cefotaxime, ciprofloxacin and tetracycline.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • In this case, male mosquitoes have been modified to carry a gene that makes their female progeny dependent on the antibiotic tetracycline—and thus fated to die in the wild.
    — Donavyn Coffey, Scientific American, 14 May 2021
  • Aureomycin spawned a class of antibiotics called the tetracyclines still used for everything from soft tissue infections to malaria prophylaxis.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 5 June 2018
  • But by 1959, strains of Shigella had already developed resistance to tetracycline.
    — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2018
  • Examples of interacting antibiotics include quinolones (such as ciprofloxacin), tetracyclines, and cephalosporins (like Keflex).
    — Kirstyn Hill, Pharmd, Mph, Health, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Exposed to antibiotics commonly used on pig farms, the bacterium acquired resistance to methicillin and tetracycline before jumping back to humans.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2012
  • This type of antibiotic efflux is a common problem with the tetracycline antibiotics, often used to treat infections like urinary tract infections, chlamydia and acne.
    — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Using genetic-engineering techniques, the company altered the male mosquitoes to pass down a gene that makes females need a dash of the antibiotic tetracycline to survive.
    — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • Henry adds that medications such as hormonal birth control, oral antibiotics, tetracycline, spironolactone, and isotretinoin, all help control hormone levels to lessen the chance of breakouts.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 12 June 2024
  • New antibiotics kept appearing on the market, pushing the prices of older stalwarts, such as penicillin and tetracycline, further down toward affordability in poor countries.
    — Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015

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