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Good hygiene, symptom management, and supportive therapies need to be considered for all the DDx. Specifically: Vaginitis – BV: metronidazole (Flagyl) PO or clindamycin (Cleocin) vaginal cream; Candida: OTC antifungals such as miconazole (Monistat 1) and fluconazole (Diflucan) PO. Trichomonias.: metronidazole (Flagyl) or tinidazole (Tindamax) PO Cervicitis – based on the risk factors of the patient, empiric therapy

effectively with a single dose combination treatment of sulfonamide and pyrimethamine. There are three main alternatives for Chloroquine resistant strains of P. falciparum: 1) A combination therapy of oral quinine and tetracycline, doxycycline, or clindamycin, 2) Combination therapy of Atovaquone-proguanil, and 3) monotherapy treatment with mefloquine. During the 1980s mefloquine emerged as the successor to chloroquine monotherapy. However it is portrayed negatively through the media due to associations

Introduction Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) is an important human pathogen. It causes severe and invasive infections, such as pneumonia, septicemia, otitis media, and meningitis, especially in children, the elderly, and immuno-compromised patients [1,2,3]. S. pneumoniae initially colonize the nasopharynx and may persist for months without causing illness, forming specialized structures called biofilms [4,5]. Pneumococci from these biofilms can migrate to other sterile anatomical sites

and O’Toole, Clostridium difficile (C.diff) earned its name from the Latin difficilis, due to its difficulty in culturability when it was initially isolated. Though its cytotoxic nature was acknowledged, it wasn’t until 1978, when the antibiotic clindamycin was being widely used, that C. diff was recognized for causing disease in humans. Since then, the incidences of C. diff infections have increased significantly, becoming an epidemic in both Canada and the United States. Life Cycle: C. diff is a

cause of the C difficile infection. This happens when the antibiotics kill many of the harmless bacteria in our gut. This allows the C difficile pathogen to multiply and produce poison toxins. Over using certain antibiotics such as penicillin, clindamycin and even cephalosporins can reproduce and cause an infection. Hospitalizations are another main cause of the spreading of the C-diff infection. It takes place in all healthcare facilities, due to the fact that a large number of hospitalized individuals

before and after study: A Review Thornhill et al.’s article on the cessation of antibiotic prophylaxis and its impact on infective endocarditis examined, both, prescriptions for antibiotics of a standard premedication dose (3g amoxicillin or 600mg clindamycin) and diagnoses or deaths due to infective endocarditis between January 2000 and April 2010. The time frame chosen for this study was critical due to the release of updated NICE guidelines, stating providers should cease use of any antibiotic prophylaxis

ABOUT THE PATHOGEN There are two common organisms found in the diagnosis of toxic shock syndrome, Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes (Cancer Institute, 2012). Staphylococcus aureus is a nonmotile, spherical, gram-positive bacterium that can be seen growing in clusters (Cowan, M., & Bunn, J., 2015). Streptococcus pyogenes is a nonmotile, spherical, Group A Streptococcus, gram-positive bacterium that can be seen growing in chains (Cowan, M., & Bunn, J., 2015). VIRULENCE FACTORS Pathogenesis

acting against isolated MRSA were higher than the minimal inhibitory concentrations values. some antibiotics such as for isolated pathogens were about the same for most of the antimicrobial agents studied. Although some antimicrobial agents such as Clindamycin were able to inhibit biofilms, but could not eradicate them (2016). Thus, there might still be some risks of

Antimicrobial medications are drugs that are used for a variety of disease to combat many bacterial issues. Since the 1940s, these drugs have greatly reduced the incidence of illness and death from infectious diseases. Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of these infections. However, these drugs have been used so widely and for so long that the infectious

Imipenem, Meropenem, Amikacin, Gentamicin, Tobramycin, Chloramphenicol, and Cotrimoxazole. Bifidobacterium sp. was found to be sensitive to Penicillin, Ceftriaxone, Imipenem, Meropenem, Amoxycillin+clavulanic acid, Piperacillin+Tazobactam and Clindamycin and resistant to Metronidazole. The patient showed a good response to Meropenem and recovered completely.