Background and aim: Acne vulgaris is a chronic disease of pilosebaceous units which most commonly affects younger people. There are many different treatment modalities; each affects some mechanisms of acne pathogenesis. Systemic antibiotics are one of the most popular methods of treatment. In this study the efficacy of oral erythromycin was compared with doxycyclin in the treatment of mod...

The successful elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) may be limited because of the absence of drugs effective against the adult filarial parasites, which survive in their host for prolonged period and hence continue to remain as the source of transmission in the community even after several rounds of annual mass drug administration. Available drugs for the control of LF are not effective eno...

Chlamydien verursachen viel seltener schwere Komplikationen wie Eileiterschwangerschaft und Unfruchtbarkeit als früher angenommen. Ein Routine-Chlamydienscreening bei sexuell aktiven Frauen wird nicht empfohlen. Die Behandlung der analen pharyngealen Chlamydiose soll mit Doxycyclin erfolgen. Gonorrhoe Syphilis nehmen vor allem Männern, die Sex Männern haben, zu. darf neu auch intravenös behande...

Managing available resources is a key necessity of each organism to cope with the environment. The nematode C. elegans responds to nutritional deprivation or harsh environmental conditions with a multitude of developmental adaptations, among them a starvation-induced quiescence at early larval development (L1). daf-18, the C. elegans homolog of the human tumor suppressor gene PTEN, is essential...

During the recent years, an immense increase in the number of food poisoning cases in people caused by Campylobacter (C.) species has occurred. Raw milk, next to poultry meat, is considered the most frequent cause of food poisoning in people caused by the subject bacteria, although it is not always possible to isolate Campylobacter cells from the incriminated milk. Most probably this difficulty...