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'Nanotechnology' May Simplify Antibiotic Treatment

Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com

TUESDAY, May 19 --So-called "nanotechnology" may improve the effectiveness of antibiotics by allowing the medicine to be put into an aerosol form, new research suggests.

A spray of antibiotics encapsulated in microscopic antimicrobial silver carbene complexes (SCCs) proved highly successful at just half the dosage of conventionally inhaled antibiotics in tests on mice infected with Pseudomona aeroginosa, a common bacteria that causes a pneumonia-like respiratory illness in people. Read more...

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MRSA Infections Spreading to Kids in Community

Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com

MONDAY, Jan. 19 – Antibiotic-resistant infections around the head and neck are on the rise among American children, a new report indicates.

The finding suggests that tougher strains of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus – referred to as MRSA because of their resistance to the antibiotic methicillin – are moving beyond the traditional confines of hospitals and into the community at large.

"We certainly found that the emergence of resistant staph head and neck infections in pediatric settings is on the rise," said study co-author Dr. Steven E. Sobol, director of the department of pediatric otolaryngology at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Read more...

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