Treatment Strategies for Multiple Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacterial Infections

A promising target for treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections.

Consensus statement on antimicrobial treatment of odontogenic bacterial infections.

The infection of the oral cavity is a common public health problem and constant cause for antibiotic prescription, with 10% of antibiotics used to treat this problem. However, few studies have so far aimed to determine its incidence. Added to this, its relationship with certain sytemic diseases (cardiac, endocrine, etc) confers this pathology vital importance. In spite of the frequency and impo...

How Fitness Reduced, Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria Survive and Spread: A Multiple Pig - Multiple Bacterial Strain Model

More than 30% of E. coli strains sampled from pig farms in Denmark over the last five years were resistant to the commonly used antimicrobial tetracycline. This raises a number of questions: How is this high level sustained if resistant bacteria have reduced growth rates? Given that there are multiple susceptible and resistant bacterial strains in the pig intestines, how can we describe their c...

Treatment of bacterial infections

Editorial Treatment of bacterial infections This issue of the journal has again a theme-that of diagnosis and treatment of infection in its various guises. It is not that long since a simple cut or abrasion could result in overwhelming septicaemia and death due to lack of suitable treatment by antibiotics – which today we all take for granted. Hedley-Whyte and Milamed nicely illustrate the prog...

Antimicrobial treatment for urinary tract infections

The aims of treatment One of the aims of treatment of urinary tract infection is to relieve distressing symptoms as quickly as possible. Another is to prevent recurrent infections in those children who experience frequently recurring symptomatic urinary tract infection. A third objective is to prevent infections in children who are deemed to be at greatest risk of developing reflux nephropathy ...