How To Use microbic In A Sentence
- The microbicides are also effective as a form of contraception, because they act as both a spermicide and a barrier preventing fertilisation.
- Microbicides are likely to be most effective at population level if they both protect uninfected women against HIV infection and reduce the infectiousness of women already infected.
- In 1898, he discovered haemolytic sera and showed that the mechanism of their action on foreign blood is similar to that by which an antimicrobic serum acts on microbes and, furthermore, that the reactions of the sera are colloidal in nature. Jules Bordet - Biography
- A microbicide is a product used vaginally to prevent infection by ANC Daily News Briefing
- To conduct microbicide studies, the laboratory infrastructure requires HIV testing facilities along with the capacity to perform routine biochemistry and haematology studies as part of product safety monitoring.
- It's a topical microbicide and we found that it inhibited malaria and toxoplasma.
- The development of all antagonistic substances which confer the special character on antimicrobic sera, as well as antitoxins, may be expressed as the formation of bodies with specific combining affinity for the organic substance introduced into the system -- toxin, bacterium, red corpuscle, &c., as the case may be. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
- In what some are calling a historic day in HIV prevention, a microbicide gel has been found to help prevent HIV transmission.
- Researchers said on Monday that the gel, which is known as a microbicide and contains a prescription drug from US drugmaker Gilead Sciences, can sharply reduce HIV infections in women who use it before and after sex. Mail & Guardian Online
- There are 60 different microbicide products in development and 11 of them are being tested in clinical trials on people. Times, Sunday Times
