Sentences with phrase «effective antibiotics for»

Gentamicin is considered one of most effective antibiotics for bacteria like E. coli, Bacillus etc..

This culture will allow identification of the infection - causing bacteria, as well as a determination of the most effective antibiotics for treatment.

The research team notes that doctors and patients can play a role in decreasing antibiotic resistance by using antibiotics judiciously and through research that identifies the most effective antibiotics for specific conditions such as endophthalmitis.

An effective antibiotic for bacterial sinus infections depends on the type of bacteria that is causing the infection.

«Pfizer Animal Health is excited to be able to offer this safe and effective antibiotic for treatment in horses in just two doses for a full course of therapy.»

Because of this, it usually needs to be treated with an effective antibiotic for at least 6 weeks.

Because of these associated conditions, urinary tract infections in cats usually need to be treated with an effective antibiotic for at least six weeks.

Not exact matches

Particularly striking is the mortality trend line for tuberculosis, which falls precipitously from 1838 onward — decades before the bacterium responsible for the disease was identified (1882), and long before the advent of the first effective antibiotic therapy, streptomycin.

Resist the urge to ask your doctor for antibiotics, which are only effective against bacteria.

A 10 - to 14 - day course of antibiotics is generally the most effective form of treatment for this type of infection, and most women feel relief within 48 to 72 hours.

Tetracycline, the antibiotic of choice for most adults with cholera, has so far been effective against V. cholerae O139.

«Medical and veterinary sectors should work together to help ensure antibiotics remain effective for us all.

Today's publication of «Tackling Drug Resistant Infections Globally: Final Report and Recommendations», by Lord Jim O'Neill, is a global landmark in the fight to keep antibiotics effective for both animals and people, says NOAH, which represents the UK animal medicines sector.

«Her results suggest that, for certain types of infections, formulation of an antibiotic that creates an alkaline environment at the source of infection could be effective,» says associate professor Bryan Davies with the university's Center for Infectious Disease, who was not involved with the study.

As a result, Soviet pharmaceutical companies churned out billions of units of questionable drugs that were only partially effective at normal dosages, weakening bacteria but not killing them outright — an environment perfect for spurring antibiotic resistance.

But the mounting burden of diseases means that newer and more effective medications must be developed; for example, bacterial resistance is growing globally, pushing our need for novel antibiotics.

«It is clear that antibiotics are not an effective treatment for these infections once established in the lung, so something else needs to be developed urgently, and targeting the infection at the site of entry before chronic infection develops is one way forward.»

Mitchell Cohen, a microbiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, says that although he finds the EGS approach to drug resistance «very clever,» in the long run, it may be no more effective than another new antibiotic.

This means that antibiotics will no longer work to treat conditions for which they used to be effective.

This fashion faded in the 1960s as effective treatments, such as vaccines and antibiotics, became available and people became aware that sun exposure and sunburn during childhood were strong risk factors for developing skin cancer in later life.»

«Antibiotics not effective for clinically infected eczema in children.»

And of course, for many, many years there was a period — many listeners may remember — there was a, now it seems an sort of an astonishingly naïve period, I believe in the 1970 for a while, when antibiotics were so effective and the level of this sort of transmissible disease was falling down so low that some people were really thinking that we had, kind of, beaten these kinds of infectious diseases.

Researchers from Queen's University Belfast have discovered why antibiotics for treating people with cystic fibrosis are becoming less effective and how fat soluble vitamins might offer a viable solution.

In a randomized, controlled clinical trial — the first of its kind — a multi-institution research team reports that daptomycin, part of a new class of antibiotics currently approved only for use in adults, is effective and well - tolerated in children.

Researchers have come up with a way to make antibiotics more effective should the plague come back or if it is used for bioterrorism.

«Given what we know now, I don't think it's overstating the case to say that for certain types of infections, we may be looking at the start of the post-antibiotic era, a time when most of the antibiotics we rely on to treat bacterial infections are no longer effective.»

If antibiotics ever do prove effective for treating coronary artery disease, he says, the results would be «staggering.

Prof. Raymond Kaempfer, the Dr. Philip M. Marcus Professor of Molecular Biology and Cancer Research at the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada (IMRIC), in the Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine, explains: «Rather than targeting the bacterial pathogens, which can then mutate to develop antibiotic resistance, host - oriented therapeutics have the advantage of remaining effective even against infections with antibiotic - resistant strains.

«But the findings suggest a potentially simple and effective approach for reducing antibiotic usage.

In order to ensure that future antibiotics retain their effectiveness for as long as possible, it is essential that effective surveillance mechanisms are combined with the use of genome sequencing to scan for the emergence and spread of resistance.»

While antibiotics have been highly effective at treating infectious diseases, infectious bacteria have adapted to them and antibiotics have become less effective, according to the Centers for disease Control and Prevention.

«We hope our research will lead to more effective antibiotics, and also that it will inspire other researchers to use carbon nanodots as scaffolding for a variety of applications,» said Dr. Ngu - Schwemlein.

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With drug - resistant strains running rampant, a few hospitals have limited use of certain antibiotics for months at a time — on the assumption that hardier drug - sensitive strains would outcompete the resistant bugs and allow the drugs to be effective once again.

For example, perhaps the amino acid interactions that stabilize the pump structure could be targeted by drug development efforts to block pump assembly or function, thereby rendering currently defunct antibiotics effective once more.

«Even when an antibiotic is indicated, such as for strep throat or some ear infection, physicians often prescribe and antibiotic such as a Z - Pak, which can be less effective than amoxicillin.»

The committee hopes big pharma will pay for this research scheme, as it has a «commercial imperative to having effective antibiotics, as well as a moral one».

The market forces that proved so effective at coming up with a remedy for male impotence have let us down when it comes to antibiotic resistance.

«We risk losing the last antibiotic class for the effective treatment of gonorrhea,» says Vanessa Allen, chief of medical microbiology at Public Health Ontario in Toronto, Canada.

Forty - six countries have reported gonorrhea strains with decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone, and 10 have reported patients for whom none of the usual antibiotics were effective, Wi says.

Pentamidine, when used with other antibiotics, was found to be particularly effective against two of the three pathogens which the WHO has identified as having the most critical priority for development of new antibiotics.

The data could also help them refine their own study; if they're trying to figure out what dosages of an antibiotic are most effective, for example, they can avoid dosages that another group has already tested.

If a toxin is found, for example, that affects an E. coli ribosome but leaves human ribosomes unharmed, then it may be an effective antibiotic.

However, certain antibiotics have been used so widely and for so long that some bacteria have become resistant to them, rendering treatment less effective.

A person can harbor the bacterium for a lifetime, and antibiotics are less effective during the latent phase.

Soon after the causative agent was correctly identified and successfully isolated in 1982, antibiotic treatment was shown to be effective and since then a variety of in vitro and in vivo studies have been performed to further characterize the activity of antimicrobial agents against B. burgdorferi s.l.. Although many antimicrobial agents have been tested for their in vitro activity against borreliae, the full spectrum of antibiotic susceptibility in B. burgdorferi s.l. has not been defined for many compounds.

«Many believe it's more effective than antibiotics,» says acupuncturist Janet Zand, author of «Smart Medicine for Healthier Living.»

We know that our bodies build up a «tolerance» to certain things over time — caffeine, antibiotics, and alcohol, for example — rendering them less effective unless the dosage is increased.

In a study from Arizona State University, bentonite clay was found to be highly effective at killing MRSA as well as Salmonella, E.Coli and others.What is promising as research continues in this area is that depending on the method in which the clay kills the infection, it may not be possible for the MRSA or other bacteria to develop a resistance to it as it does with antibiotics.

And it is clinically proven to be just as effective as antibiotics minus the crappy side effects — for example yeast infections.