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Sun Aug 24

• Overview: HA-MRSA | CDC Infection Control in Healthcare

Sun Aug 17

• Probiotics Counter Antibiotics: When it comes to a healthly gut, the use of antibiotics is equivalent to throwing the baby out with the bath water. Eradicating pathogenic bacteria with courses of antibiotic drugs also kills off normal intestinal flora. Antibiotic-ass ociated disruption of gastrointestin al flora tract can lead to diarrhea, dehydration and mineral-salt imbalance, particularly among small children. Replacement with beneficial "friendly " bacteria, called probiotics, is in order. Because the 25- to 35-foot-long digestive tract contains some 400 species of bacteria, totaling some 100 billion organisms, repopulation is a considerable task. Favorable bacteria such as Lactobacillus and Bifidus counter the sanitizing effects of antibiotic therapy. Recent scientific studies support this application.

Sat Aug 16

• RU Newswire: New antibiotic beats superbugs at their own game

Thu Aug 14

• Antibiotic Side Effects Responsible for 140,000 ER Visits Every Year: A new study says that side effects from cipro, amoxicillan and other antibiotics send more than 140,000 people to the ER every year.

Tue Aug 12

• Czechs make breakthrough discovery in bacteria DNA: Czech scientists have made a breakthrough discovery, one that research teams all over the world have been striving for for years. Scientists from the University of South Bohemia have detected the structure of an enzyme that can change the DNA in bacteria. The discovery should in time prevent bacteria from being resistant to antibiotics. Ruth Fra?ková spoke to Ruediger Ettrich, the head of the Centre of protein structure and function and one of the people behind the discovery:

Sat Aug 9

• Medical Dispatch: Superbugs: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: Hoist by our own petard

Thu Aug 7

• Chlamydia drug over-the-count er: For the first time an antibiotic for chlamydia is to be made available from pharmacists (5th August 2008)

Wed Aug 6

• The new generation of resistant infections is almost impossible to treat

Tue Aug 5

• field guide to antibiotic therapy 2005-2006

Fri Aug 1

• Facing Apparent Resistance To Antibiotics, Hebrew U. Researchers Develop New Techniques To Kill Dormant Bacteria: Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found new ways to kill dormant bacteria that have become seemingly resistant to antibiotics.

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