A Brief Introduction to Sulfasalazine Sulfasalazine is a sulfa drug derived from mesalazine (5-aminosalicylic acid known as 5-ASA). Often prescribed as an effective medication against inflammation-related symptoms‚ it has multifaceted effects towards several diseases including intestinal diseases as well as rheumatoid arthritis.1 Sulfasalazine has been widely used for decades since its approval by FDA.2 Apart from the common uses‚ researchers also recently discovered that sulfasalazine could potentially
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Penicillin There were many fascinating serendipitous scientific discoveries in the 20th century. One of them was the discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming. The discovery and development of penicillin totally changed the direction of approaches to treating infectious diseases and saved millions of lives ever since (1). It was the first antibiotic to successfully treat bacterial infections. Therefore‚ Alexander Fleming‚ Ernst B. Chain‚ and Sir Howard Florey together were
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PraShawn Hampton Period:1 Barbracide in the Salon Back in 1947 in New York‚ Maurice King prepared a chemical product that would help take sanitation to another level. Barbracide is a big reason why most salons and barbershops are still open today. Barbicide helps remove all of the bacteria and germs off of barbershop and salon implements such as: razors‚ combs‚ hair clips‚ and sanitizes stations. The iconic blue liquid is well known for being a disinfectant‚ but as well as that‚ the use of barbicide
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Antimicrobial resistance takes a place when a microorganism develops the ability to resist the action of an antimicrobial. (AVMA) In other words‚ the microorganism progress‚ ways to stay alive and reproduce in the presence of an antibiotic that used to prevent these actions. At this time‚ the process of resistance development is a very difficult process and researchers do not know for sure about what can make a resistance happen. (AVMA) Antimicrobials are spread through the food production systems
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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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Antibiotics are used for treating human infections that are caused by specific bacteria‚ fungi‚ protozoans‚ and other large viruses. They are generally grouped with the class of microorganisms that they inhibit. Antibiotics are used to fight off infections within the human body system by inhibiting the growth of its infectious microbes. Antibiotics have been considered one of the greatest newest innovations in medicine but there is still yet to be a perfect ideal antibiotic. In this experiment six
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Clostridium difficile as a gram positive‚ spore like bacteria mainly in hospital and widely spread in the community. It causes infection in human intestines such as diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis. Clostridium difficile original is necessary in human body which helps maintain gastrointestinal balance and body normal regulation. However‚ overproduction of Clostridium difficile causes Clostridium difficile infections (CDI)‚ overgrowth of bacteria become spore form leading to release two exotoxins
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Introduction Teeth are an important component of the oral cavity that affects other functions of the body such as digestion. However‚ unlike other parts of the body‚ teeth as a whole do not naturally regenerate once lost (Ravindran and George‚ 2015). Presently‚ missing teeth are usually replaced with artificial prostheses that can never fully restore the physiological functions of a natural tooth (Zhao and Chai‚ 2015). Over the past few decades‚ researchers have had a keen interest in stem cell-mediated
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K. pneumoniae is a gram negative‚ facultative anaerobic‚ gamma-proteobacteria that can cause pneumonia‚ urinary tract infections‚ cholecystitis‚ and septicemia. (Strand & Shulman 1988) As shown in Table 1.‚ many organisms have developed resistances to commonly used antibiotics. The difference between the standard strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae and the extended spectrum betalactemase (ESBL) strain‚ for example‚ is striking. 12 antibiotics had greater than or equal to 95 percent effectiveness against
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The debate of whether bacteriophages could replace antibiotics is one of the many health issues to be explored in this essay. Bacteriophages are viruses that specifically target bacteria in your body to destroy it. Many scientists believe that bacteriophages will replace antibiotics in the fight against bacterial/diseases‚ although ideal‚ scientist do not know the long term effects of using this mechanism of defense. More research is needed and thus the push for bacteriophage usage may be reluctant
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