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Study reveals excessive antibiotic prescriptions for children can harm the
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 21 (ANI): While antibiotics are known for their properties to fight bacteria and are the most important type of antibacterial agent for fighting the bacterial infection, a new study suggests that excessive antibiotic prescriptions for children can harm their health
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Dangerous bacteria communicate with each other to avoid antibiotics: Study
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 2 (ANI): While suffering from viral fever or bacterial infection, the first thing one does is to take antibiotics. Some bacteria develop resistance to otherwise effective treatment with antibiotics.
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Researchers develop electric field-based dressing to treat wound infection
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], May 18 (ANI): Bacterial infection, slimy and thin film of bacteria that forms on wounds, can be treated with the use of an electric field-based dressing, a study has claimed.
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Researchers find new treatment for Chlamydia
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 6 (ANI): There might be a treatment for Chlamydia, the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the world, now.
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Fiji records 69 cases of leptospirosis, 4 deaths
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Suva [Fiji], Jan 31 (ANI): Leptospirosis, a bacterial infection spread through the urine of rodents and other animals, has gripped Fiji this monsoon, with 69 cases of infections being reported by authorities until Thursday, while four people have died.
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Higher rifampin can be more effective to fight TB
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 1 (ANI): Turns out, higher dose of rifampin, an antibiotic to treat several types of bacterial infections, can kill more tuberculosis bacteria in sputum cultures without increasing the adverse effects of treatment.
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Natural extracts may fight bacterial infections
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], June 9 (ANI): A new study has found a process in which natural plant extracts can fight bacterial infections.
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Blood vessels are not designed to fight infections: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 11 (ANI): In a recent study, group of scientists have found that endothelial cells are vulnerable to bacterial infection because they lack certain immune machinery common in other cells.
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A 'game changer' test for antibiotic drug resistance
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 2 (ANI): When a patient is prescribed the wrong antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection, it's not necessarily the physician who is at fault. The current antibiotic assay, standardised in 1961 by the World Health Organization and used worldwide, is potentiall
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Your saliva test can check body's immunity
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 15 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Birmingham have found that antibody levels in saliva are linked to those in blood serum, suggesting a new method for assessment of protection against bacterial infections.
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Cranberries can `juice up` your immunity
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 20 (ANI): An old wives' tale might be held up by modern science as a new study has found that cranberry juice is effective at preventing bacterial infections.
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