Reducing contamination in blood cultures decreases the need for additional resources, such as repeat blood cultures, unnecessary antibiotic treatments, and further diagnostic tests. Contamination can be minimized by strictly adhering to antiseptic procedures at collection sites, ensuring proper training for c...
Fosfomycin is an antibiotic used to treat bladder infections, and its tromethamine salt received FDA approval in 1996. Different salts of fosfomycin were studied, namely sodium, calcium, and tromethamine. Fosfomycin disodium is administered parenterally and is not suitable for oral administration due ...
For the second case, the CSF cell count did not correlate with HSV but since patient had a prior history of transplant and was on immunomodulator there was a high risk for mollaret meningitis, rare form of meningitis that is recurrent, aseptic, mild, and self-limiting, HSV-2 being the mos...
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a sheep, a horse, a cow, a goat or a pig. The agent can be a drug, a chemotherapeutic agent, a radioisotope, a pro-apoptosis agent, an anti-angiogenic agent, an enzyme, a hormone, a cytokine, a growth factor, a cytotoxic agent, a peptide, a protein, an antibiotic, an antibody,...
The antibiotic susceptibility changes of the Escerichia coli strains isolated from community-acquired urinary tract infections in adults according to the years (2010-2014) Objective: Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common infectious diseases in the community. Gramnegative bacilli ...
The lambs in the treated group were given two daily doses of 20 mg/kg live weight spectinomycin for 3 days, while the other group of lambs (untreated group) did not receive any antibiotic. Serum endotoxin was higher in the treated lambs. The combined infection of E. coli + Proteus ...
Flucloxacillin, a narrow-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic is commonly indicated for infection caused by methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, and must be prescribed at high dosages and long-term intravenous therapy in special circumstances including bacteriemia prosthesis-related infection, osteomyelitis...
The antibacterial property of ant venom has only been demonstrated in the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, in whose venom alkaloids inhibit the growth of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and presumably act as a brood antibiotic (12, 13). Venoms of the wasp,Vespa crabro, honey bees,...
What do deaths from motor vehicle accidents, fires, smoking-related ung cancer, obesity and type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, and traumatic brain injuries have in common? Per the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM), they were...