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Giardia lamblia was first discovered in 1681 by Dutch merchant and amateur scientist Anton Van Leeuwenhoek. Van Leeuwenhoek is thought to be the first person to observe live microorganisms through a simple single-lensed microscope. He found the parasite Giardia lamblia in his own stools. At the time of observation, he would make detailed drawings of what he found in which he referred to as animalcules. “These drawings have since been identified as representations of bacteria and protozoa” (p. 6)

Counterfeit or fake medication is a problem in the world of pharmacy affecting many unsuspecting patients. These patients buy medication from unlicensed sources such as illegitimate online pharmacies, usually with the intent of purchasing it for a cheaper price. However, they do not realize that the product made is artificial and is sub-potent, super-potent, or contaminated, damaging their health, rather than improving it. Fake drugs can also enter the medical supply chain through active ingredients

Introduction Clostridium difficile or more commonly known as C. diff is a bacterium that lives in the microflora of human intestines. Clostridium, refers to its spindle shape, and difficile is Latin for difficult. It gets its name because it is very hard to kill. This bacterium is able to in anaerobic conditions and it can live on a surface for up to 90 days. Each year C. diff infects roughly 500,000 people in the United States and often causes hospitalization (AGA). C. diff is able to infect a

Trhia Vu N01390867 Palm Beach IAI Script- Secondary Peritonitis A) Pharmacist: Student pharmacist, I would like to go over John Smith’s case with you today so we can discuss the appropriate therapy for him. A) Pharmacy Student: Sounds great! I am currently learning about infectious disease. This will help test my knowledge and really help me become a great clinician. A) Pharmacist: Let’s get to it! John Smith is a 19-year-old male who arrived at the emergency room complaining of nausea and vomiting

Current Treatments of Inflammatory Bowel Disease IBD, including both UC and CD, are not medically curable and the treatment process must be maintained throughout patient life. The primary therapeutic goals of IBD treatment are to (1) reduce the inflammation, that triggers the signs and symptoms, through inhibition of different targets (2) induce and maintain long time remission and (3) preventing and treating complications, which ultimately improve patient quality of life. The therapeutic choices

Oral administration is the most resourceful, convenient and major mode of drug delivery and is associated with superior patient compliance as compared to other modes of drug intake (1). Approximately 50% of drug delivery systems present in the market are oral drug delivery system (2). But main difficulty encounter in oral formulation (as estimated more than 50% of oral formulations are found to be poorly water soluble) has low bioavailability, giving increase to additional problems like high inter

Dermatology Chart Note 1  Yanktonai, Lakota # 765851  May 2, 2015  SUBJECTIVE Patient is a 9 year old adolescent male, presents with a 2 day history of itching encrusted sores especially around the mouth area. Parent is using OTC antibiotic ointment with no improvement, no recent history of fever. Parent states that pat recently visited a petting zoo OBJECTIVE HEENT are basically unrevealing. Temp in the office today is 98.4. The outer area of the mouth extending into the chin reveals macules,

Twenty American Quarter Horse geldings, aged between four and eight years and weighing ideally 1,000 to 1,300 pounds, shall be used. All horses should ideally be non-athletes that were previously kept as pleasure riding horses. The horses will be completely evaluated clinically and ultrasonongraphically by veterinarians blinded to the study before the experiment to ensure that there are no preexisting health conditions to hinder healing, or any history or signs of previous injuries to the superficial

A young male patient used the fixed dose combinations with of different fluoroquinolones and nitroimidazoles several times in the last few years for self-treating repeated episodes of diarrhoea and loose motion, and each time experienced fixed drug eruptions that increased in number and severity on subsequent occasions. Suspecting association between the drug and the rashes, the patient each time discontinued the treatment prematurely, and preferred to switch to a similar formulation but with different

Helicobacter pylori and Gastric cancer Helicobacter pylori is a small, microaerophilic gram negative rods that regularly colonize the human stomach (Strausbaugh et al., 2002). It is one of the common bacterial pathogen that is found in the stomach of almost half of the world’s population (Zhao et al., 2014) and such well adaptation or successful long lasting colonization of H. pylori in to the human stomach is achieved by the combination of different factors, which addresses different challenges