Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is a strain of staph bacteria that does not respond to antibiotics used to treat staph infections. About two out of every 100 people carry this strain of staph, according to the National Institutes of Health, and infections can be minor to ...
Researchers originally set out to compare the efficacy of two antibiotics commonly used to treat staph skin infections, randomly giving 191 children either cephalexin, a classic anti-staph antibiotic known to work against the most common strains of the bacterium but not MRSA, or clindamycin, known ...
Colistin is an antibiotic used to treat acute and chronic bacterial infectionsfrom susceptiblestrainsof certain gram-negative bacteria. Gram-negative bacteria are structurally different from gram-positive bacteria, with an additional cell membrane that gram-positive bacteria lack. The two types of bacteria...
Antibiotic resistant staph infection is wakeup call.(Knight-Ridder Newspapers)Askari, Emilia
Cefazolin is a broad spectrum antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections. Cefazolin is active against many gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, however, it is a first generation cephalosporin and manystrainshave developed resistance to it. Gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria are structurally...
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Current/Emerging Resistant Bacteria Infection Types Resistance Notes Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus“staph” (MRSA) Infections can range from skin and soft tissue infections (cellulitis, abscess), to urinary tract infections, osteomyelitis (bone), endocarditis (heart), pneumonia (lung) ...
The proliferation and dissemination of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is an increasingly global challenge and is attributed mainly to the excessive or im
Metronidazole (such as Flagyl, Metrogyl), a medicine used to treat various types of bacterial infections; Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), medicines used to relieve pain, swelling and other symptoms of inflammation, including arthritis; ...
Systemic clindamycin is used to treat bacterial infections including: Pneumonia Empyema Lung abscess Orofacial infections Pharyngitis Rhinosinusitis Skin and soft tissue infections Endometritis Amnionitis Pelviccellulitis Postsurgical vaginal cuff infection