Antibiotics in crisis

Antibiotics in crisis

Critical mass: Bacteria with multiple drug resistance kill around 23,000 people per year in the US alone, and a similar number across Europe. That figure corresponds to the capacity of the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York shown here, or the O2 Arena in London. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/davidwboswell) The US Food and Drugs Administration once proposed a regulation to ban the use of three antibiot...

Antibiotics in Iranian Aquaculture Industry

Antibiotics in Qazvin Pysicians' Prescriptions

ABSTRACT Inappropriate antibutic prescription cause both microbic resistance and imposition of heavy and useless expenditure on patient and remedy-drug system. To analyse prescription indexes regarding antibutics in Qazvin physicians' prescriptions, this descriptive study was conducted on 2100 regular, randomly sampled prescriptions of general physicians, specialists and dentists. These docum...

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

Antibiotics Removal in Biological Sewage Treatment Plants

This study investigated the occurrence and removal of 12 antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, levofloxacin, norfloxacin, nalidixic acid, azithromycin, clarithromycin, roxithromycin, lincomycin, novobiocin, sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim) at four sewage treatment plants (STPs): two STPs in Kyoto, Japan and two STPs in Beijing, China. The STPs differed in design and operation conditions, uti...