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Vancomycin is used to treat an infection of the intestines caused by Clostridium difficile, which can cause watery or bloody diarrhea. This medicine is also used to treat staph infections that can cause inflammation of the colon and small intestines....
Bactroban topical (for use on the skin) is used to treat skin infections such as impetigo or a "Staph" infection of the skin.Bactroban may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.WarningsUse Bactroban cream or ointment for the full amount of time prescribed by your ...
My comment: Impetigo is a common skin infection caused by staphloccus which tends to colonise up people’s noses. It spreads rapidly in the nursery and primary school environments. Previously it was treated with oral penicillin. Children are advised to stay off school to reduce spread. Any ef...
The doctors explained that the bug was an aggressive staph infection with an ugly twist: Only a few drugs worked against it. Mother and baby needed much stronger antibiotics. Logan would have to stop breast-feeding, because her milk could pass even more drugs to Isabella, throwing off the ba...
to treat it, or because the antibiotics don't work if the bacteria are antibiotic-resistant. Our work shows, for the first time, how drugs that target the lung—rather than the bacteria—might treat staph infection in flu-infected lungs. We think that drugs that activate the CFTR protein,...
However, infection appears to persist longer in older mares and recently foaled mares. Treatment is with antibiotics over a 7 to 10 period. Aggressive systemic antibiotic therapy accompanied by routine topical therapy might be required to treat some CEM-positive stallions. PREVENTION Prevention and ...
Despite continued improvements in antibiotics and hospital intensive care, staph sepsis—a bloodstream infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria—still causes severe illness or death in 20 to 30 percent of patients who contract it.
Biofilm-growing cells show an enhanced antimicrobial tolerance with respect to the same cells growing in a free-floating way. This is due to physical or chemical diffusion barriers and increased transfer of resistance markers. Thus, tissue- and medical device-related biofilms can be considered among...
Abstract The pathogenesis of implant-associated infection involves interaction between the microorganisms (biofilm formation), the implant and the host. Despite improvement of perioperative prophylaxis, orthopaedic implants still remain highly susceptible to bacterial or fungal contamination, generally resulting ...