Tag: Antibiotics
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Antibiotics (plasma assay)
Indication: The examination adjusts the optimal dose of antibiotics in case of under-dosing (treatment failure) but also of an overdose, then with its risk of toxicity. Principle: This is to test the bactericidal activity of a patient serum with antibiotics against the bacterium considered responsible for the infection. Technique: Two blood sampling 10 mL each:…
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Abscess
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An abscess is a collection of pus in the soft tissues. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common causative agent. Mature abscess appears as a red swelling, inflammatory, painful on palpation generally fluctuating, sometimes fistulized. At this stage, the abscess cavity is inaccessible to antibiotics, the only treatment is surgical. This collection phase is preceded by…
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Neisseria
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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Neisseria are Gram-negative cocci, diplococci associates, sometimes tetrads and immobile. Strictly aerobic bacteria, only to respiratory metabolism (respiration of nitrate and / or nitrite is possible). They are always catalase (+) and possess a cytochrome C oxidase. Their metabolic potential is limited. These are the usual hosts of mucous membranes of humans and…
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Antibiotics
RANGE OF ACTION: Penicillin G: This narrow, some Gram + cocci (streptococci); cocci Gram – (meningitis, gonorrhea); Gram + bacterium (Listeria, Corynebacterium); strict anaerobic Gram positive bacterium (Clostridium) and spirochetes (Treponema, Leptospira). Penicillin M: Spectrum identical to that of penicillin G plus an activity on penicillinase-producing staphylococci but Meti-S. Penicillin A: Streptococci; meningitis; BGN (Listeria,…
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Drugs During Pregnancy
* Aminoglycosides: can be used for periods of less than a week for serious infection * NSAIDs: to be used in case of severe birth threat before 32 weeks. If NSAIDs are used after -> risk of IRA; risk of premature closure of the ductus arteriosus => PAH. * Antibiotics: – Beta-lactams pass the placenta…
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New Antibiotic Discovered in Pandas
According to a Chinese study; antibiotic was discovered the genome of pandas and artificially propagated in the laboratory, it is, it seems, much more powerful than most of the antibiotics already available on the market and if this really is effective after therapeutic tests experimental pharmacologically guided it would be a major advance in therapy.…
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