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The use of unsupervised _______________ administration to 100,000 pilgrims enroute to Mecca from Indonesia is thought to have been significantly responsible for the fact that 50% of cholera strains in that country are now resistant to this antibiotic?

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The use of unsupervised Prophylactic tetracycline administration

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Tetracycline antibiotics as prophylactic tetracycline are commonly used to treat cholera to reduce its severity and duration.

In several evaluations of cholera treatments, the use of tetracycline to treat diarrhea as part of the rehydration treatment is being revised due to patients develop a resistance to antibiotics as tetracycline.