“It had gotten quite a lot better, so I was thinking, ‘The antibiotics are obviously working.’ It was just like a little pimple on my knee. My knee swelled up. It was just painful. I just didn’t really train. Just chilled for the first four days we were there (in Miami...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Funk out Indefinitely with Staph Infection; the Golfer Has Had His Knee Drained 18 Times since Surgery in May" by Smits, Garry - The Florida Times Union, December 20, 2008By Smits...
Staph infections in hospitals are a serious concern, so much so that the term Methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) is as commonly known as MRI. Far less known is that in many of these cases, patients are infecting themselves. In heart surgeries and knee and joint-replacement procedure...
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RFQ administration in the rats resulted in reduced knee swelling and expression of systemic inflammatory markers, a decrease in signs of femoral osteomyelitis and decreased biofilm formation. Doses of RFQ in both species were statistically more effective than vancomycin in reducing the bacterial burden....