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An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of human-made antibiotics over the entire history of their application.
A new study has found that Danish one-year-olds carry hundred antibiotic resistant genes in their bacterial gut flora.
UIC researchers prove that drugs designed for bacteria have potential to act on human cells and may be used to treat human diseases.
by Hannah Joy on March 17, 2021 at 10:24 PM Cefazolin, a common antibiotic can be given to most of the patients who self-report a penicillin allergy because dual allergy to both penicillin and cefazolin was just 0.7%, reveals a new study. The study was conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the University of Porto in Portugal. The researchers reported in JAMA Surgery that the frequency of allergies to both penicillins and cefazolin was so small that most patients should receive cefazolin regardless of thei...
Antibiotic Overuse Curbed by Rapid Test by Karishma Abhishek on March 5, 2021 at 11:08 PM RAPID-TEST study at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, the University of Bristol, published in the journal Family Practice. microbiological point-of-care test - BioFire® Filmarray® v1.7 (bioMérieux) was evaluated in four GP practices in the South West of England over a six-week period. The test can detect 17 different types of respiratory virus and three atypical respiratory bacteria thereby providing results of nasal and throat swabs in around 65 minutes. The study...