Sentences with phrase «of penicillin years»

Just like the accidental discovery of penicillin years ago, science today sometimes still rides on the beauty of the «accident.»

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If you had ever known how penicillin alone saves millions of lives a year or how angioplasty can save someone's life from a heart attack, you wudn't even dare to show up on this forum... Now get lost

At the beginning of my career I saw a significant number of women who had had rheumatic fever in childhood, and had to have penicillin prophylaxis in labor, but it must be at least 20 years since the last case I had.

Mitral valve prolapse from rheumatic fever, which eventually killed my husband's grandmother, who got rheumatic fever, less than 10 years before the discovery of penicillin.

In the past year, so many people have been given antibiotics, in particular antibiotics in the penicillin family and amoxicillin family that staph aureus developed a resistance in some cases, so this bacteria is particularly hard to get rid of.

In the intervening 17 years between discovery and distribution, Fleming continued to experiment with small batches of penicillin on several bacterial pathogens, including Staphylococcus.

Leath said 10 years later, up to 90 percent of people will have outgrown a penicillin allergy.

«Besides aspirinand penicillin, there are very few drugs I can think of that have somany uses,» says Eric First, a physician who has studied botulinumtoxin for 12 years.

The presence of antimicrobial resistance genes in 1000 - year - old Incan remains suggest resistance was common hundreds of years before we discovered penicillin

Over one five - year period in the 1990s, the rate of penicillin resistance increased by 300 percent, while cefotaxime resistance grew by more than 1,000 percent.

In black South Africans and in Zimbabwe, however, syphilis prevalence remained around 6 % until 50 years after the introduction of penicillin.

The discovery of penicillin about 90 years ago and the widespread introduction of antibiotics to combat infectious diseases have revolutionized human medicine.

The discovery of penicillin almost 90 years ago ushered in the age of modern antibiotics, but the growth of antibiotic resistance means bacterial infections like pneumonia and tuberculosis are becoming more difficult to treat.

Rather it was the widespread use of first generation beta - lactams such as penicillin in the years prior to the introduction of methicillin, which selected for S. aureus strains carrying the mecA determinant.

In 1929 when modern medicine saw the results of the first antibiotic (Penicillin) they quickly forgot about the ancient wisdom that had been handed down for 1,000 ′ s of years.

I grew up from the time I was 4 on to have strep throat every year and had a shot of penicillin in the rear.

Since Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928, pharmaceuticals have grown to a trillion - dollar - a-year industry in the human field, and over 8 billion a year in veterinary medicine.

When this is ineffective or impractical, a 50 - 50 mixture of methylprednisolone acetate and procaine penicillin G injected into the lesion offers relief that can last up to a year.

«Looking at humanity's greatest inventions over the last 100 or so years, like the transistor, or penicillin, or Linux, all these have really helped us to move forward and none of those were built by lawyers.»