Both vaccines and antibiotics are used to treat infectious diseases. There are vaccines that work against both viruses and bacterias. Antibiotics, however, only work against bacteria and other microorganisms. Vaccines stimulate antibody production in the body. Antibiotics inhibit the growth of or destro...
There are two significant challenges; the first is that caregivers will need to understand and accept that antibiotics don’t have the outcomes they think they may have. This will depend on the knowledge and experience of both the clinician and the caregiver with the challenges highlighted by Kr...
Official answer: There are no antibiotics that kill the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the virus which causes COVID-19. Antibiotics work on bacteria...
The first diagnosis was epididymitis (because of fever) and taking antibiotics for months together has not helped. Please advise. --Srini, Bangalore,India Byanon15475— On Jul 12, 2008 What is the process of having your epididymus removed? What is life after the surgery like? Can you still...
Bacterial DNA Adenine Methyltransferase as a Novel Drug Target for Antibiotics: Current Status and Future Drug Discovery Challenges Antibiotic resistance and the particular emergence of multi - resistant bacterial strains are clinically relevant issue involving serious threats to public... U Natasya,S Kuma...
Can we avert it? There are companies working on novel antibiotics, things the superbugs have never seen before. We need those new drugs badly, and we need incentives: discovery grants, extended patents, prizes, to lure other companies into making antibiotics again. ...
In addition, there are five important strategies needed for preventing (or minimizing) antibiotic resistance (Lee et al., 2016; Tillotson, 2015): (i) antibiotic stewardship to maintain the value of existing and future antibiotics; (ii) the timing of prescription to use the effective antibiotics ...
but it’s usually used only when other antibiotics don’t or can’t work. It’s associated with a high number of dangerous side effects, and the risk versus benefit of using any of the fluoroquinolones is always carefully weighed. There are good reasons to use ciprofloxacin in certain instan...
From blood storms to honeycomb lungs, here’s an organ-by-organ look at how COVID-19 harms humans.
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