نتایج جستجو برای: antimicrobial drugs

تعداد نتایج: 305989  

2017
Laura H. Kahn

T use of antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals can result in antimicrobial drug–resistant infections in humans. A good example is the use of fluoroquinolone in poultry and the emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter infections among humans. However, topics of intense debate include the widespread use of antimicrobial drugs in animals, the extent to which antimicrobial drug ...

2005
Thomas G. Fraser Valentina Stosor Qiong Wang Anne Allen Teresa R. Zembower

The Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee published guidelines for prudent use of vancomycin to combat increasing resistance to antimicrobial drugs. Studies examining compliance with these guidelines primarily involve hospitalized patients. The growing practice of home use of antimicrobial drugs led to this retrospective cohort study that evaluated parenteral vancomycin use in...

2006
Larissa Grigoryan Flora M. Haaijer-Ruskamp Johannes G.M. Burgerhof Reli Mechtler Reginald Deschepper Arjana Tambic-Andrasevic Retnosari Andrajati Dominique L. Monnet Robert Cunney Antonella Di Matteo Hana Edelstein Rolanda Valinteliene Alaa Alkerwi Elizabeth A. Scicluna Pawel Grzesiowski Ana-Claudia Bara Thomas Tesar Milan Cizman Jose Campos Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg Joan Birkin

We surveyed the populations of 19 European countries to compare the prevalence of antimicrobial drug self-medication in the previous 12 months and intended self-medication and storage and to identify the associated demographic characteristics. By using a multistage sampling design, 1,000-3,000 adults in each country were randomly selected. The prevalence of actual self-medication varied from 1 ...

2011
Mercy J Newman Enoch Frimpong Eric S Donkor Japheth A Opintan Alex Asamoah-Adu

BACKGROUND Antimicrobial drug resistance is a global issue that affects health, economic, and social development. The problem has been attributed to misuse of antimicrobial agents. PURPOSE To identify the agents of bacterial infection in Ghana, determine their antibiogram, and the possibility of setting up a surveillance program. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective quantitative study set in ...

Journal: :Emerging Infectious Diseases 1998
B. E. Murray

Enterococci are associated with both community- and hospital-acquired infections. Even though they do not cause severe systemic inflammatory responses, such as septic shock, enterococci present a therapeutic challenge because of their resistance to a vast array of antimicrobial drugs, including cell-wall active agents, all commercially available aminoglycosides, penicillin and ampicillin, and v...

Journal: :BMC Public Health 2004
Bjørn Blomberg Davis SM Mwakagile Willy K Urassa Samwel Y Maselle Marcellina Mashurano Asbjørn Digranes Stig Harthug Nina Langeland

BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance is particularly harmful to infectious disease management in low-income countries since expensive second-line drugs are not readily available. The objective of this study was to implement and evaluate a computerized system for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania. METHODS A computerized surveillance system for antimicro...

2017
Jean B. Patel

T use of antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals can result in antimicrobial drug–resistant infections in humans. A good example is the use of fluoroquinolone in poultry and the emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter infections among humans. However, topics of intense debate include the widespread use of antimicrobial drugs in animals, the extent to which antimicrobial drug ...

2010
T.R Prashith Kekuda R Kavya R.M Shrungashree S.V Suchitra

The present study deals with antimicrobial activity of ayurvedic drugs containing single herb (Amalaki Choorna and Yastimadhu Choorna) and combination of herbs (DN-90 and Asanadi Kwatha Choorna). Disc diffusion method was used to assess antibacterial activity and antifungal activity was tested using Poison food technique. Absence of bacterial growth around the discs impregnated with the aqueous...

Journal: :Emerging Infectious Diseases 2008
Ravindra K. Gupta Robert George Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam

Pandemic influenza planning is well under way across the globe. Antiviral drugs and vaccines have dominated the therapeutic agenda. Far less work has been conducted on stockpiling and planning for deployment of antimicrobial drugs against secondary bacterial pneumonia, a cause of substantial illness and death in previous pandemics and epidemics. In the event of a pandemic, effective antimicrobi...

2016
Keng-Shiang Huang Chih-Hui Yang Shu-Ling Huang Cheng-You Chen Yuan-Yi Lu Yung-Sheng Lin

Human safety and well-being is threatened by microbes causing numerous infectious diseases resulting in a large number of deaths every year. Despite substantial progress in antimicrobial drugs, many infectious diseases remain difficult to treat. Antimicrobial polymers offer a promising antimicrobial strategy for fighting pathogens and have received considerable attention in both academic and in...

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