An ongoing‚ and unfortunately growing‚ problem in the United States is pediatric overuse of antibiotics. The audience to whom the responsibility of this problem falls includes pediatricians and family practice physicians who are in the position to prescribe and administer antibiotics to children. Antibiotics have been one of man’s greatest discoveries in the medical realm; saving thousands of lives that would have otherwise succumb to harmful‚ disease-causing bacteria.1 However‚ with the discovery
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Unit 4222-306 Promote and implement health and safety in health and social care (HSC 037) Outcome 1 : Understand own responsibilities‚ and the responsibilities of others‚ relating to health and safety 1. identify legislation relating to health and safety in a health or social care work setting The settings in which we are likely to provide support are generally covered by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 ( HASAWA ). This Act is like the overall "umbrella" that has been updated and supplemented
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YA BOY SUPERBUGS A kid catches a disease; one of his friends from school gets it from him; he gives it to his brother; his brother to his parents; his parents to their coworkers; their coworkers spread it to their families; and pretty soon‚ the whole country has the infection and they all turn into zombies because there’s no cure. Sounds like the plot for the next Spielberg thriller‚ right? Surprisingly‚ this scenario is a lot more likely than many of us think. While the idea of zombies developing
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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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3. Results and discussions 3.1. Disease Severity Results presented in Table 2 showed the disease severity (PDS) after 15 d of inoculation. A significant difference in the PDS was noticed between ‘Nicola’ and ‘Spunta’. The resistant cultivar (Nicola) showed lower incidence of infection compared to the susceptible cultivar (Spunta). Inducers’ treatments individually or in combination with difenoconazole (fungicide) showed significant protective effects against A. solani. The 2‚4-D was the most
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Misuse of antibiotics is one major cause of the global health crisis of antibiotic resistance. Misuse or overuse can make supposedly harmful bacteria become “superbugs‚” which are highly resistant to nearly all classes of antibacterial compounds. To determine the culprits‚ researchers at the Carolinas HealthCare System in North Carolina conducted a study to find the factors that led to the misuse of antibiotics. Alexander Fleming invented the first antibiotic for humans called penicillin in 1928
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The Problem of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Hospitals. Introduction Antibiotic resistant bacteria are bacteria who can survive after exposure to one or more antibiotics. Some bacteria present today can even be resistant to multiple antibiotics and these are sometimes referred to by the name Multidrug resistant (MDR). Today many clinically important bacteria are MDR’s and this is a direct result of past decades of antimicrobial use and misuse. If an infection results from this sort of resistant
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Response: “After sealing the bottle with a butyl rubber stopper and an aluminum crimp‚ the bottle was purged with pure nitrogen (for 10 min) to obtain anaerobic conditions.” This explanation is added to the revised manuscript. (Page 8‚ line 13-15) Comment 14: Page 8: Explain if pH was controlled during fermentation. In any case‚ do a reference in the result section to the pH at the end of fermentation Response: The pH was not directly controlled during the fermentation. In the line with typical
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Pathogens are bad microorganisms that cause diseases which make you unwell if gets into your body‚ some of these are bacteria and viruses. Bacteria cause infections like TB‚ legionnaires and flu and viruses cause Hepatitis B‚ measles‚ mumps and more. Bacteria often produce toxins which affect the body‚ while viruses take over whole the cell and then destroy P2 Explain how pathogenic micro-organisms grow and spread? Pathogen microorganisms grow if all right conditions are in place for it to expand
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to the presence of an infectious agent(s) or its toxin(s)‚ (2) that occurs during a hospital admission‚ (3) for which there is no evidence the infection was present or incubating at admission‚ and (4) meets body site-specific criteria.6 Patient-days were defined as the total number of days that patients were in the hospital. Data sources The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system. The NNIS system was a voluntary network of U.S. hospitals collaborating with CDC to monitor HAIs
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