Sentences with phrase «of ceftriaxone»

At their conference in September, the CDC announced a cluster of gonorrhea infections that are highly resistant to azithromycin, and that fall prey only to high doses of ceftriaxone.

In lab tests, it was susceptible to spectinomycin and rifampin (unfortunately, oral gonorrhea can only be treated by an injection of ceftriaxone).

But while an injection of ceftriaxone and an azithromycin pill are supposed to be used in combination, this may not always be the case for all patients.

Not exact matches

However, to our knowledge this is the first national study on susceptibility of N. gonorrhoeae to azithromycin and ceftriaxone in China.

Yin and colleagues found high prevalence of resistance to azithromycin (RTA; 18.6 %; 95 % CI 17.4 % -19.8 %) and decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone (DSC; 10.8 %; 95 % CI 9.9 % -11.9 %) in the study population.

The latest resistance data from the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme suggest stable levels of drug resistance to cefixime, and no significant increase in resistance to another key drug (ceftriaxone).

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.

Resistance to azithromycin, however, appears to be increasing and the effectiveness of this recommended dual treatment might be under threat if resistance to third - generation cephalosporins (cefixime and ceftriaxone) also starts to increase again.

Madrid, Spain: The antibiotic combination treatment piperacillin - tazobactam was significantly less effective than meropenem when treating potentially fatal bloodstream infections (BSI) caused by ceftriaxone - resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and should be avoided when treating these organisms, according to research presented at the 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)[1].

The other drug, ceftriaxone, helps clear glutamate, excessive amounts of which can destroy neurons.

Public health alerts helped physicians recognise cases of typhoid that were resistant to ceftriaxone, an antibiotic reserved to treat multidrug - resistant infections.

Patients, enrolled in an NIH funded study, met the following criteria [17]: (1) current positive IgG Western blot using CDC surveillance criteria assessed using a single reference laboratory (University Hospital of Stony Brook); (2) treatment for Lyme disease with at least 3 weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone or cefotaxime that was completed at least 4 months before study entry; and (3) objective evidence of memory impairment as documented by the Wechsler Memory Scale - III compared to age -, sex - and education - adjusted population norms.

Treatment with ceftriaxone, and high or low doses of tigecycline resulted in the same outcome: persistence of non-cultivable B. burgdorferi in tissues of treated mice at 90 days after completion of treatment [14].

The experimental approach utilized a ceftriaxone regimen used by multiple research groups that consistently resulted in persistence of non-cultivable B. burgdorferi following treatment in C3H mice in order to determine the ultimate fate, up to 12 months, of persisting non-cultivable spirochetes.

Treatment of C3H mice with ceftriaxone is a useful model for investigation of post-treatment persistence of non-cultivable B. burgdorferi.

Here, we demonstrate that MISC is feasible at an X-ray free electron laser by studying the reaction of M. tuberculosisß - lactamase microcrystals with ceftriaxone antibiotic solution.

Collectively, these studies by multiple research groups in multiple mammalian species following treatment with an array of antimicrobial drugs, including doxycycline, ampicillin, amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, and tigecycline, have documented a similar outcome: persistence of non-cultivable B. burgdorferi following antibiotic treatment.

Lyme disease patients with heart or nervous system problems may be given a two - to four - week course of IV antibiotics, such as ceftriaxone or penicillin.

This cluster of drug - resistant cases was identified in Honolulu in April and May of this year, with five infections showing «dramatic» resistance to azithromycin, as well as reduced vulnerability to ceftriaxone.

The last line of defense we have is a one - two punch of a pair of antibiotics: azithromycin and ceftriaxone.