Sentences with phrase «treating cholera»
Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, co-ordinated through the editorial base in LSTM, conducted an independent review of the effects of treating cholera with antimicrobial drugs, published in The Cochrane Library today.
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Ya'ara Leibovici - Weissman from Tel Aviv University said: «In treating cholera a quick and accurate diagnosis remains key, but it is clear from the results that antimicrobials result in substantial improvements in clinical and microbiological outcomes, with similar effects observed in severely and non-severely ill patients.
«The phages clearly have gained the upper hand, and studying how they do it can eventually open the door for treating cholera with phages.»
In October of 2016, the HHI — Haiti doctors and staff were challenged when Hurricane Matthew tore through Haiti as a Category 5 hurricane, destroying much of the island and adding to the already burdened system treating the cholera outbreak.
Ana was part of a research team that searched through the waters of Lake Victoria in Kenya to find Vibrio cholerae phages that could be used to treat cholera.
Not exact matches
Other diseases treated with chiles include plague, where the Luo tribe of Africa applies the pepper leaf to the bubo; and cholera, malaria, and scarlett fever are treated by the simple consumption of chile pods in the Malay Peninsula.
Back then, it was indicated to treat «neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage.»
When oral hydration doesn't work for the diarrheal disease, cholera, caused by the comma - shaped bacterium Vibrio cholera, can sometimes be treated by intravenous fluids and antibiotics.
It will be no panacea; cholera experts stress that supplying clean water and toilets, and isolating and treating any cases, are still essential.
With health resources diverted to treating direct casualties of war, Popal fears the rise of diarrhoeal diseases like cholera, typhoid and measles.
Another example related to improperly treated or untreated sewage is Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes the intestinal infection cholera.