Articles Tagged With: bacteria
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Does Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis Prevent Spontaneous Preterm Birth?
In this randomized, controlled trial from France, screening for and treatment of bacterial vaginosis in pregnant women at low risk for preterm birth with oral clindamycin or placebo did not reduce the rate of spontaneous preterm birth between 16 and 36 weeks.
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Safety Warning Issued for Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now is asking clinicians to consider other treatment options besides fluoroquinolone antibiotics because of risks associated with their use.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
House Mice as Vectors; Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables — or You Might Get TB!
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Antibiotic Cycling Is Not Useful for Reducing Antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative Pathogens in Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Units
A randomized study that included eight intensive care units in Europe found no reduction in mortality or carriage of antibiotic-resistant gram-negative pathogens with antibiotic cycling compared to antibiotic mixing.
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Get up to Speed in Addressing Urinary Tract Infections
Research presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America indicates that women at risk of urinary tract infection (UTI) who increased their water intake by drinking an additional three pints of water a day were almost half as likely to get infections as women who did not.
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A Twist in the Use of Spices: Prebiotic Effect
SYNOPSIS: Seven spices were found to contain numerous antioxidant phytochemicals and have an overall, but variable, prebiotic effect on 88 known species of microbiome bacteria.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Food Tray Contamination With MRSA/VRE; Hospital Ice Machines Contaminated With Bacteria; Significance of Toxocara Serologies?
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What Do the Urinary Microbiota and Incontinence Have to Do With Each Other?
Increased diversity of the microbiota in women is associated with urgency urinary incontinence symptoms but not with stress urinary incontinence symptoms.
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Secnidazole Oral Granules (Solosec)
The FDA has approved the first oral single-dose treatment for bacterial vaginosis in adult women.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Antibiotic increases honeybee mortality; Sustained hepegivirus infection in injection drug users; Decrease SSIs: Take August off