Editorial. Focuses on the duration of antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease treatment. Use of penicillin, erythromycin and tetracycline to treat erythema migrans and Lyme disease; Methodology of study adopted by Wormser and colleagues; Treatment failure with oral antibiotic regimen in patients with ...
While the standard antibiotics used to treat Lyme disease do the job for the majority of patients, somewhere between 10 and 20 percent go on to experience its symptoms. These include muscle pain, fatigue, fever, headaches and heart problems. There are couple of theories for why this might be...
addition of various chemical groups to the core of the penicillin molecule to generate semisynthetic versions. A range of penicillins thus became available to treat diseases caused by different types of bacteria, includingstaphylococci,streptococci,pneumococci, gonococci, and the spirochaetes ofsyphilis...
The bacterial infection called Lyme disease is difficult to treat, can inflict lasting nerve damage and affects almost 500,000 people annually in the United States alone. Now tests in mice show that an antibiotic that had been sitting on the shelf for decades blocks the bacterium that causes ...
Doxycycline is a class of medications traditionally used to treat bacterial STIs after someone has been infected. Yet recent research suggests that one 200mg dose of the drug can be effective in preventing such infections among men who have sex with men if taken within 72 hours after unprotected...
Neonatal Infections: Benzylpenicillin sodium may be used to treat infections in newborn infants, such as early-onset sepsis or pneumonia caused by susceptible bacteria. ; Check for interactions on Supp.AI|📚 PubMed Citations|⚗️ Compensation for antibiotic usage ...
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Since 2000, an increase in the number of antifungal compounds has been sought because there is a critical need to treat life-threatening invasive fungal infections. In the last decade, newer and less toxic antifungal drugs have been discovered for clinical use. Antifungal agents are classified by...
1.any of a large group of chemical substances, as penicillin and streptomycin, that are produced by various microorganisms and fungi, have the capacity in dilute solutions to inhibit the growth of or to destroy bacteria and other microorganisms, and are used in the treatment of infectious diseas...
Bacterial Resistance: Overuse or misuse of nadifloxacin can contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, making infections more difficult to treat in the future. Drug Interactions: Nadifloxacin is a topical medication, so systemic drug interactions are unlikely. However, patients...