"Antimicrobial agents" refers to substances or chemicals that are capable of killing or inhibiting the growth of microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or protozoa. They are used to prevent or treat infections caused by these microorganisms.
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Their findings demonstrate that the treatment plants contain a great many genes that may generate resistance to a wide variety
of antimicrobial agents.
Tiny particles of silver —
potent antimicrobial agents that can kill bacteria on contact — are becoming increasingly popular in consumer goods.
«The network recognizes patterns,» says M. Rizwan Sohail, an infectious disease expert at Mayo Clinic and lead author of the study, presented at the Interscience Conference
on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco in September.
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are proving to be incredibly flexible with a myriad of potential applications including
as antimicrobial agents, hydrogen - storage materials and solar - cell components.
The findings, announced online in the
journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and funded by the National Institutes of Health, provide a needed boost to the field of antibiotic development, which has been limited in the last four decades and outpaced by the rise of drug - resistant bacterial strains.
Because cefovecin is a
new antimicrobial agent in veterinary medicine, there are only few studies about urine culture of cats with LUTI.
We hope the 2017 VET Report inspires and motivates you to learn more about antimicrobial resistance and steps you can take to be part of the solution — by leading in the movement to reduce pressure for antimicrobial resistance selection, veterinarians can help maintain access and efficacy of the most important
antimicrobial agents for both animal and human health.
Vitamin D is an important player in overall healthy immune function, but it's also an
effective antimicrobial agent in its own right, producing 200 to 300 different antimicrobial peptides in your body that kill bacteria, viruses and fungi.
A new comparative study identified some ant species that make use of
powerful antimicrobial agents — but found that 40 percent of ant species tested didn't appear to produce antibiotics.
Lactobacillus spp had the greatest susceptibility to bacitracin, and tylosin; Pseudomonas spp, to tylosin, and sulfadiazine; Klebsiella spp, to tylosin, oxytetracycline, gentamicin; E. coli to tylosin; and Pasteurella canis and Francisella tularensis to all
used antimicrobial agents.
While there is a critical need for new
antimicrobial agents against CRE and other emerging antibiotic - resistant bacteria, the number of new antibiotics that have been developed and approved has steadily decreased in recent decades.
While this strain did respond to
other antimicrobial agents and was treated successfully, investigators say the case presents a sound reminder to monitor and track multidrug - resistant organisms.
Germs have been strategizing against the effects of
antimicrobial agents from a variety of sources (including other microbes) for billions of years.
Localized demodectic lesions may benefit from topical
antimicrobial agents such as mupirocin, benzoyl peroxide, chlorhexidine, or ethyl lactate when secondary pyoderma is present.
«Confirming an earlier study by researchers in Germany we found that some commercial grapefruit seed extracts contain benzethonium chloride, a
synthetic antimicrobial agent commonly used in cosmetics and only approved for topical use, at relatively high levels of 8 %.»
Results of susceptibility testing of the most commonly isolated bacteria indicated that for Staphylococcus spp, most
efficacious antimicrobial agents were tylosin, chloramphenicol, oxytetracycline, and gentamicin.
Said one of the study's authors, «Contact lens culture may give a clue regarding the identity of the causative organism in situations in which the corneal scraping is culture negative, and may help in choosing the
appropriate antimicrobial agent.»
The findings indicate that hibiscus was effective at all levels in inhibiting E. coli — therefore making it a
promising antimicrobial agent that could be considered for inhibiting other types of food - borne illness.
I personally love coconut oil because I like the taste, and also because it contains lauric acid, a
great antimicrobial agent.
Your all - purpose cleanser should work well with the face and body — it must have natural
antimicrobial agents which kills or prevents growth of micro-organisms, pathogens, and bacterial.
A modern use of honeysuckle flowers is as an addition to pharmaceutical or
herbal antimicrobial agents to increase their effectiveness.
The antibiotic susceptibility tests were performed according to the Kirby - Bauer method recommended by the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) to select the
optimal antimicrobial agent for treatment [12].
Although 95 percent of those surveyed claimed to wash their hands after using a public restroom, only 67 percent actually do so, according to findings presented today at the ASM's Interscience Conference
on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy meeting.
For Neisseria spp, tylosin, oxytetracycline, sulfadiazine, gentamicin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline were the most
effective antimicrobial agents.
«Finding a species that carries a
powerful antimicrobial agent is good news for those interested in finding new antibiotic agents that can help humans,» Smith says.
The work «has captured the attention of the entire pharmaceutical industry as an exciting new approach for the production of
new antimicrobial agents from engineered organisms,» says University of California, Berkeley, chemist Peter Schultz.
Termite GNBP attacked the cell walls of bacteria and fungi, making them leaky and more susceptible to the termites»
other antimicrobial agents.
«Given development times and manufacturing requirements for new products, repurposing of existing drugs is likely the only solution for outbreaks due to emerging viruses,» the investigators noted in the paper now online in the
journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Antioxidant /
antimicrobial agents such as essential oils from edible and medicinal plants, herbs and spices are used in vaccumpackages.