BACKGROUND Bacteriophages are viruses that attack bacteria and lead to their lysis in an efficient and highly specific manner. These natural enemies of bacteria were used as therapeutic agents before the advent of antibiotics. Currently, with the rapid spread of multi-drug resistant bacteria, phage therapy can be an effective alternative treatment for antibiotic resistant bacteria. OBJECTIVES...

AIMS The demonstration of the antibiofilm effects of pharmaceutical microemulsions. METHODS AND RESULTS Microemulsions were prepared as physically stable oil/water systems. Previous work by this group has shown that microemulsions are highly effective antimembrane agents that result in rapid losses of viability in planktonic populations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. In ...

Polihexanide is a broad-spectrum antiseptic with excellent tolerance and a low-risk profile. The physicochemical action on the bacterial envelope prevents or impedes the development of resistant bacterial strains. Thus, polihexanide is particularly suitable and useful in the struggle against multidrug-resistant bacteria. The ecological database is still incomplete. There is some evidence that b...

242 J Clin Psychiatry 61:4, April 2000 BRAINSTORMS is a monthly section of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry aimed at providing updates of novel concepts emerging from the neurosciences that have relevance to the practicing psychiatrist. From the Clinical Neuroscience Research Center in San Diego and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. Reprint requests to: S...

We examine the equilibrium properties of hot, non-relativistic plasmas. The partition function and density correlation functions of a plasma with several species are expressed in terms of a functional integral over electrostatic potential distributions. This is a convenient formulation for performing a perturbative expansion. The theory is made well-defined at every stage by employing dimension...

In prior work, the authors developed a method of degenerate perturbation theory about the Ising limit to derive an effective Hamiltonian describing quantum fluctuations in a half-polarized magnetization plateau on the pyrochlore lattice. Here, we extend this formulation to an arbitrary lattice of corner sharing simplexes of q sites, at a fraction (q − 2k)/q of the saturation magnetization, with...

Dr Stephen Covey (1932-2012) was and remains a hugely influential management guru. Covey's most famous book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, became a blueprint for personal development when it was published in 1990. The principles may be used for life in general they are not limited to workplaces, management, leadership, etc. Covey's concepts actually can help people to grow, chang...

A team is more than 1 person working together toward a common goal. Therefore, every physician is on multiple teams, ranging from a small team of himself or herself and a patient and family, to primary care medical home teams, to inpatient care teams with various levels of trainees and different professionals, to clinical and basic science research teams, to hospital boards, university committe...