Antibiotic resistance: how has it become a global threat to public health? Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug, make them resistant," said Alexander Fleming, speaking in his Nobel Prize ...
All uses of antibiotics contribute to the antibiotic resistance crisis we face. According to the most recent publicly available data, more than 35 million pounds of antibiotics are sold for use in food animal production every single year in the U.S. compared to 7 million pounds in human medic...
What is an antibiotic medication allergy?An antibiotic medication allergy is a harmful reaction to an antibiotic. The reaction can start soon after you take the medicine, or days or weeks after you stop. Healthcare providers cannot know ahead of time if you will have an allergic reaction. ...
The psychological and social challenges on the principle-agent relationship are significant but the societal impact of antibiotic prescribing has been neatly encapsulated in a novel study by Poole et al.5. It provides some evidence that perhaps clinicians may be able to use with families to reduce ...
As predicted almost 70 years ago by the man who discovered the first antibiotic, drug resistance is upon us. How do antibiotics work? Although there are a number of different types of antibiotic they all work in one of two ways: A bactericidal antibiotic kills the bacteria. Penicillin is a...
Zithromax is not a penicillin it is a type of antibiotic called a macrolide. Macrolides kill bacteria by inhibiting protein synthesis and blocking the assembly of the 50S ribosomal subunit, which is a structure in a cell that helps coordinate protein synthesis. Macrolides are unrelated to penicillin...
The word antibiotic means “against life.” Any drug that kills germs in your body is technically an antibiotic, but most people use the term when they’re talking about medicine that kills bacteria. History of antibiotics Scientists introduced the first antibiotic, salvarsan, in the early 1900...
What is the best initial antibiotic regimen for patients hospitalized with an MRSA cellulitis? Evidence-based answer: The answer is not entirely clear. However, for methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs), linezolid has a higher clinical cure rate an...
Levofloxacin is a popular antibiotic used to treat bronchitis or people exposed to anthrax. Ofloxacin is used to treat chlamydia, pneumonia and urinary tract infections, while ciprofloxacin is used to treat various bacterial infections. Minor side effects that could occur with the use of these types...
DE Coplen - 《New England Journal of Medicine》 被引量: 56发表: 2009年 Evidence behind the WHO guidelines: hospital care for children: what is the appropriate empiric antibiotic therapy in uncomplicated urinary tract infection... Guidelines: hospital care for children: what is the appropriate empi...