Anti-Bacterial Agents - Therapeutic use
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children with cancer.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: New strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which frequently carry the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) genes have been recognized to cause invasive infections in otherwise healthy children and adults. However, the ... Read more...

Effect of trichiasis surgery on visual acuity outcomes in Ethiopia.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of trichiasis surgery on visual acuity. METHODS: A total of 439 participants in the Surgery for Trichiasis, Antibiotics to Prevent Recurrence (STAR) trial had visual and subjective concerns measured before and 6 ... Read more...

Minocycline inhibition of photoreceptor degeneration.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether systemic minocycline can protect photoreceptors in experimental retinal detachment (RD). METHODS: Retinal detachment was induced in mice by subretinal injection of sodium hyaluronate, 1.4%. In 1 experiment, mice ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Anti-Bacterial Agents - Therapeutic use'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children with cancer. 13 Dec 2009
• Enterococcus casseliflavus endophthalmitis associated with a horse tail injury. 30 Oct 2009
• Effect of trichiasis surgery on visual acuity outcomes in Ethiopia. 30 Oct 2009
• Minocycline inhibition of photoreceptor degeneration. 30 Oct 2009
• Infections related to intrathecal baclofen therapy in children and adults: frequency and risk factors. 30 Oct 2009
• Clinical policy: critical issues in the management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with community-acquired pneumonia. 30 Oct 2009
• Blood infection diagnosis by 16S rDNA broad-spectrum polymerase chain reaction: the relationship between antibiotic treatment and bacterial DNA load. 30 Oct 2009
• Panton-Valentine leucocidin associated Staphylococcus aureus infections. 14 Oct 2009
• Development of daptomycin-susceptible, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia during high-dose daptomycin therapy. 13 Oct 2009
• Management of the catheter in documented catheter-related coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia: remove or retain? 13 Oct 2009
• Antibiotic resistance: who will pay the bills? 13 Oct 2009
• Hospital and societal costs of antimicrobial-resistant infections in a Chicago teaching hospital: implications for antibiotic stewardship. 13 Oct 2009
• Medical image. A case of lumbodynia. 7 Oct 2009
• Outcome and prognostic factors on 57 cases of infective endocarditis in a single centre. 7 Oct 2009
• Alcoholic hepatitis. 6 Oct 2009
• Mansonella perstans--the importance of an endosymbiont. 6 Oct 2009
• A randomized trial of doxycycline for Mansonella perstans infection. 6 Oct 2009
• Clostridium septicum sepsis and colorectal cancer - a reminder. 4 Oct 2009
• Benzoyl peroxide: a review of its current use in the treatment of acne vulgaris. 29 Sep 2009
• Besifloxacin, a new ophthalmic fluoroquinolone for the treatment of bacterial conjunctivitis. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Anti-Bacterial Agents'

Definition: Substances that reduce the growth or reproduction of BACTERIA.

Registry Number: 0

Descriptor UI: D000900

Alternative terms: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Agents, Anti-Bacterial; Anti Bacterial Agents; Antibacterial Agents; Agents, Antibacterial; Antibiotics; Bacteriocidal Agents; Agents, Bacteriocidal; Bacteriocides; Anti-Mycobacterial Agents; Agents, Anti-Mycobacterial; Anti Mycobacterial Agents; Antimycobacterial Agents; Agents, Antimycobacterial;

Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage; adverse effects; analysis; antagonists & inhibitors; biosynthesis; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemical synthesis; classification; diagnostic use; economics; history; immunology; isolation & purification; metabolism; pharmacokinetics; pharmacology; poisoning; radiation effects; standards; supply & distribution; therapeutic use; toxicity; urine; chemistry; contraindications; agonists;

Tree Number: D27.505.954.122.085;

History Note: 2004(1963)

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; resistance to antibiotics = DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL or specifics; preop use of antibiotics for prev of infect: index under ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS (IM) + specific antibiotic /ther use (IM)