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    Triclosan Essay

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    Part C‚ Environmental carcinogenesis & ecotoxicology reviews. 2010;28(3):147. 3. Saleh S‚ Haddadin RNS‚ Baillie S‚ Collier PJ. Triclosan–an update. Letters in applied microbiology. 4. Schweizer HP. Triclosan: a widely used biocide and its link to antibiotics. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 2001;202(1):1–7.

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    Strep Research Paper

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    you have strep because it feels exactly the same. They leave the swabs in a little plastic thing and leave it there and give the patient antibiotics and they call them if they see the bacteria grow they have strep. Strep can take a week to completely get rid of but the antibiotics usually get the strep. When sick drink plenty of water and take your antibiotics. Ways to try to prevent this disease is to wash hands‚ drink out of you own glass and clean open cuts. Strep can get to kids between 5 and

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    account for half of the orthopedic procedures done in the US each year. Infection is a major issue in surgery‚ and should be of primary concern when engineering biomaterials. Silver is of renewed importance today‚ as it has the ability to potentiate antibiotics against resistant bacterial strains. In order to reduce long term infection risks‚ it is necessary for the scaffold to maintain a silver ion release for the length of the healing process. In this study‚ silver doped porous β-tricalcium phosphate

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    Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to the killing effect of the antibiotic methicillin. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is often called a ‘superbug’ because it is very difficult to treat. It causes a huge number of infections every year in hospitals all over the world. MRSA occurs most often in the U.S. In Europe‚ the problem doesn’t seem quite as bad as in the U.S partly because of differences in the prescribing of antibiotics and partly because of control measures that have been put in

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    Science Article Response

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    “One and Done: New antibiotic could provide single-dose option” This article I found particularly fascinating to read. Currently the treatment for the MRSA infection is approx. 10 days of antibiotic infusions twice a day. A study that has been completed by Duke Medicine researchers claims that they currently have a single-dose antibiotic named Oritavancin that is just as effective as other treatments. Dr. G. Ralph Corey is the lead author of this particular study. He conducted 2 clinical trials

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    Extradition

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    among infections in burn units and the ability to growth on minute trace of unusual carbon sources such as soap residue or cap-liner adhesive found in a solution) Often resistant to many antibiotics(The large genome of pseudomonas also codes for several very efficient efflux pump systems that eject antibiotics from cell before they can function) Morphology: Pleomorphic bicilli Motility: non-motile Gram reaction: gram negative Requirement growth: facultative anaerobe Fastidious (do not survive

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    Global Health Notes

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    * Hard to find an equivalency * Epidemiologic indicators: infant mortality (or historical indicator) What is public health? * Analysis of populations * Examples- Screening in school‚ vaccines What is Global Health? * Antibiotics resistance * Women’s Health Why are they important? * Health is our human right so why would we neglect it * Ethical/moral consideration * The government should care because it’s linked to economic growth & social progress

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    Six Modern Plaques

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    And how the FDA took no action on the conclusion of harm to limit antibiotic use in livestock in other to prevent Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella DT104 because their budget is also handled by the US department of Agriculture .Issues soil and water pollution as the antibiotics from the livestock wastes end up in bacteria-rich waste lagoons ‚and this medicated sludge is often spread on croplands as fertilizers ‚where the antibiotics and drug-resistant bacteria enter groundwater or surface water and

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    gene found in bacterial cells‚ allows bacteria to be resistant to certain antibiotics. The mecA gene does not allow the ring-like structure of penicillin-like antibiotics to bind to enzymes that help form the cell wall of bacterium (transpeptidases)‚ so the bacteria continues to replicate normally. The gene encodes the protein known as PBP2A (penicillin-binding protein 2A). PBP2A has a low affinity for beta-lactam antibiotics‚ such as penicillin and methicillin. This action enables transpeptidase in

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    disrupts the protective layer of the urinary tract. This will then assist the colonisation and growth of bacteria (Goering et al.‚ 2013). 5. A positive antibacterial activity test indicates that the patient is currently taking antibiotic (antibiotic treatment). Antibiotic is a medication used to kill the bacteria in order to treat diseases and prevent bacterial infections. A zone of inhibition will be observed if the antibacterial activity test shows a positive result. Discussion Questions –

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