Sentences with phrase «by other antibiotics»

The types of illnesses where doctors seem to choose stronger antibiotics include respiratory problems, skin infections and urinary tract infections, which in many cases would be better treated by other antibiotics that are less likely to cause resistance.

This suggests that sul2 may be a result of direct selective pressure by other antibiotic substances, or possibly a result of genetically linked co-resistance.

Not exact matches

This makes me happy: Research on ribosomes by Noller and others has led to the development of novel antibiotics that hold promise for use against drug - resistant bacteria.

When it was revealed that rehabilitation efforts were also stopped with the decision to end the tube feedings and that even antibiotics were now considered «life support,» an editorial in the St. Louis Review (the archdiocesan newspaper) pointed out that «In a situation where the health of the patient depends not only upon food and water, but on other forms of care and treatment, the purpose of providing food and water should not be undermined by a neglect of the other forms of care.

Many of us adults today have inadequate good bacteria in our digestive tract — due to various things including antibiotics, chlorine in tap water (and in swimming pools and showers), the birth control pill, other medications, and also not replenishing our good bacteria by regularly eating fermented foods (yogurt, kefir, sourdough, kombucha, sauerkraut, and so on).

The beekeepers maintain an organic environment for the honeybees by never using antibiotics or other toxins on the hives.

This diet had real impact on her when she learned of the health problems that can be caused by hormone, chemical, and antibiotic filled meat and dairy (plus other problems related to those industries).

Many other infections caused by viruses can also cause a green runny nose, but unlike a sinus infection, these infections will not respond to an antibiotic.

The CDC also states that «antibiotics will rarely be needed since acute bronchitis and bronchiolitis are almost always caused by a virus and chronic bronchitis requires other therapies.»

I pledge to: - Clean my hands at all the appropriate times, especially before and after patient care - Be open to a patient or visitor asking if I have cleaned my hands - Encourage my colleagues and patients to clean their hands - Use gloves and other personal protective equipment the right way - Get an annual flu shot and other necessary vaccines and encourage my patients to do the same - Stay home if I feel sick - Help prevent antibiotic resistance by understanding when antibiotics are needed and when they are not - Know and follow standard and isolation precaution guidelines - Identify the infection preventionists in my facility and ask how I can assist them in preventing infections - Keep both my patients» environment and my attire clean - Practice safe injection practices: One needle, one syringe, only one time Source: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology http://professionals.site.apic.org/get-social/preventing-infections-starts-with-me/ Derek Butler Chair, MRSA Action UK Email: [email protected] Website: http://mrsaactionuk.net/pottedhistoryMRSA.html Telephone: [phone]

Family doctors who offer homeopathy - not recommended by the NHS - are also more likely to practice other bad habits such as the overuse of antibiotics

The bacteria behind gonorrhoea readily acquire genes for resisting drugs and so from 2012, UK patients were given two antibiotics at once — azithromycin pills plus a ceftriaxone injection — so if bacteria acquired resistance to one, they would be killed by the other.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

The court ruling, won by the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York, commits the FDA to reconsider a ban first proposed in 1977 on the non-therapeutic farmyard use of penicillin and two other types of antibiotics called tetracyclines in animal feed.

Others can effectively neutralize an antibiotic by changing it in a way that makes it harmless to them.

She adds that Candida infections can also be prevented by decreased sugar intake and other dietary modifications, avoidance of unnecessary antibiotics, and improvement of hygiene.

For the first time, scientists have shown that MRSA (methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and other antibiotic - resistant «superbug» infections can be tracked across Europe by combining whole - genome sequencing with a web - based system.

«The bactericidal mechanism of ODLs and the fact that they bind to a site on the ribosome not exploited by any known antibiotic are very strong indicators that ODLs have the potential to treat infections that are unresponsive to other antibiotics,» said Mankin, who is also professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy.

Yet just when the message appears to be getting through — judging by a small but real reduction in antibiotic prescriptions — others are calling for an unprecedented increase in antibiotic use to clear the body of infections we never knew we had.

In other words, antibiotic resistance coming from Africa or Saudi Arabia is still a very minor threat compared to that caused and spread by human activity, especially animal husbandry.

The team is now going to search for novel antibiotic compounds from other microorganisms by applying similar methods.

As the amount of antibiotics in the soil increased, so too did the levels taken up by the corn, potatoes and other plants.

Doctors currently gauge the antibiotic susceptibility of an infecting bacterial species by examining it in isolation from other species.

Resistance to antibiotics by bacteria and other microbes is an ongoing public health crisis, contributing to about two million infections and 23,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

By comparing differences in the gene that confers antibiotic resistance, as well as other pieces of DNA, the team determined that 70 % of their samples included just five bacterial strains.

The use of third - and fourth - generation cephalosporins for the treatment of infections caused by E. coli and other bacteria in humans is associated with resistance to these antibiotics in E. coli found in humans.

Many existing antibiotics, including penicillin, were identified by cultivating naturally occurring microorganisms — bacteria often try to kill each other with chemical warfare, it turns out.

These mobile elements and other extraneous DNA are what make these strains dangerous to humans and help them resist killing by antibiotics.

«It is incredibly tempting to assume that antibiotics are promoting the spread of resistance by increasing the rate at which bacteria share resistant genes with each other, but our research shows they often aren't.»

A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug - resistant bacteria that threaten public health.

Previous research by Professor Keevil and Dr Warnes has proved copper's efficacy against norovirus, influenza and hospital superbugs, such as MRSA and Klebsiella, plus stopping the transfer of antibiotic resistance genes to other bacteria to create new superbugs.

By explaining how the drug operates, their research might allow others to design new antibiotics that could in fact be used to treat tuberculosis patients — and might even work on other bugs.

By targeting an enzyme that bacteria use to swap genetic material, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have stopped the microbes» ability to spread, among other advantageous mutations, resistance to antibiotics.

«We hope we can eventually use these insights to help engineer new, rational drug combinations that can more effectively treat tuberculosis and other diseases by specifically targeting the cells that are slower to respond to antibiotics.»

The research may also provide information as to how other bacteria evade the immune system and be unaffected by antibiotics.

So for example, if one microbe is resistant to antibiotics and the other one isn't, if we let them have sex, maybe one of them will pass the resistance gene on to the other one and we can figure out where it is by seeing how long it takes for that gene to get from one microbe to the other.

He says that a designer strain of Streptomyces would allow researchers to combine the building blocks of various antibiotics produced by the streptomycetes and other bacteria to make novel, hybrid antibiotics.

To make the nanosponge - hydrogel, the team mixed nanosponges, which are nanoparticles that absorb dangerous toxins produced by MRSA, E. coli and other antibiotic - resistant bacteria, into a hydrogel, which is a gel made of water and polymers.

Environmental mercury and other heavy metal exposure, contaminated water, pesticides, a greater reliance on antibiotics — and even extensive television viewing by very young children — may be factors in mounting autism rates.

In research published last year, Raoult and others showed that the vulnerable subgroups could be predicted by the composition of their gut microbiota prior to antibiotic treatment.

The review, co-written by Dr. Tracey and Clifford S. Deutschman, professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania, notes that unlike other major epidemic illnesses, treatment for sepsis is nonspecific and limited primarily to support of organ function and administration of intravenous fluids, antibiotics and oxygen.

For decades, there has been a significant effort led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

That was followed in the 1920s and 1930s by the discovery of penicillin and other infection - fighting antibiotics, extracted from bacteria and fungi.

Tell your doctor if you have received any other botulinum toxin product in the last 4 months; have received injections of botulinum toxin such as Myobloc ®, Dysport ®, or Xeomin ® in the past (tell your doctor exactly which product you received); have recently received an antibiotic by injection; take muscle relaxants; take an allergy or cold medicine; take a sleep medicine; take aspirin - like products or blood thinners.

Their spread is promoted by the use of antibiotics and it is massive overuse of antibiotics that is the main factor promoting the spread of diseases that can not be treated by antibiotics (Bennett and others 2004, Saylers 1996, Salyers, Whitt 2005).

Researchers reported that preventive therapy with levofloxacin or other antibiotics reduced the odds of infection, including fevers and bloodstream infections, by 70 percent or more in ALL patients with neutropenia during induction therapy.

Since antibiotics are also naturally produced by organisms such as fungi, actinomycetes and other bacteria, they are ubiquitously and perpetually present in ecosystems.

But when the delicate balance is altered, by antibiotics or other causes, a few strains can become dominant, leading to severe diarrhea, inflammation and tissue damage.

«We are cautiously optimistic that any impact of levofloxacin on antibacterial resistance will be balanced by the reduction in use of other antibiotics, but long - term monitoring antibiotic resistance patterns in young ALL patients will be needed to prove this,» Wolf said.

Unfortunately, these friendly bacteria can be depleted and disrupted by taking antibiotics, steroids, acid - blocking medications, eating a poor diet, and many other factors.