Nutritional Interventions May Improve Outcomes of Patients Operated on for Diabetic Foot Infections: A Single-Center Case-Control Study by Ilker Uçkay, Vinoth Yogarasa, Felix W. A. Waibel, Annette Seiler-Bänziger, Maja Kuhn, Margrit Sahli, Martin C. Berli, Benjamin A. Lipsky, Madlaina Schöni

“…DFI cases who had professional nutritionists’ interventions had a significantly shorter hospital stay, had shorter antibiotic therapies, and tended to fewer surgical debridements. …”
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Amodiaquine and Ciprofloxacin Combination in Plasmodiasis Therapy by Peace Mayen Edwin Ubulom, Chinweizu Ejikeme Udobi, Mark Iheukwumere Madu

“…Amodiaquine (a known antiplasmodial agent) had a fairly significant antiplasmodial effect reducing the parasites for every 100 red blood cells (RBC) from 66 to 16 (75.75%) at the tolerable dosage level of 7.5 mg/kg body weight while Ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic known to have antimalarial effect) showed an insignificant antiplasmodial effect reducing the parasites for every 100 RBC from 65 to 64 (1.53%) at the tolerable dosage level of 10.7 mg/kg body weight. …”
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Evaluating the Factors Affecting COVID-19 Patients’ Mortality in Arak in 2020 by Hossein Mazaherpour, Masoumeh Soofian, Elham Farahani, Ahmad Saebbian, Mostafa Etebari, Sakineh Mazaherpour, Fatemeh Ashrafian, Amitis Ramezani

“…There was a significant relationship in terms of blood pressure, age, oxygen saturation, tachycardia, tachypnea, the interval between the onset of symptoms and hospitalization, diabetes mellitus, lung disease, cardiovascular disease, history of opium abuse, C-reactive protein, white blood cell, lymphocytes, hemoglobin, creatinine elevation, elevated liver enzyme, creatine phosphokinase, lactate dehydrogenase, ferritin, D-dimer, troponin, prothrombin time, international normalized ratio, intensive care unit admission days, arrhythmia, sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute kidney injury (AKI), and the type of antiviral and antibiotic therapy between the two groups of patients. …”
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<i>Salmonella</i> bacteria in farm animal feeds. Review by N. B. Shadrova, O. V. Pruntova, G. S. Skitovich, О. А. Akulich

“…A research into antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella isolates demonstrated resistance to such medicinalproducts as ceftriaxone, carbopenem and imipenem; and full genome sequencing showed at least one antibiotic resistance gene in 40% of Salmonella isolates detected at pig feed production plants.…”
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Corneal Subbasal Nerve Recovery in an Acute Case of Ultraviolet Keratitis Treated with Autologous Serum Eye Drops by Farshad Abedi, Pedram Hamrah

“…She was initially started on antibiotic ointment and lubricant eye drops. On her follow-up visit 3 days later, corneas had persistent SPK bilaterally. …”
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Brain Abscess and Keratoacanthoma Suggestive of Hyper IgE Syndrome by Soheyla Alyasin, Reza Amin, Alireza Teymoori, Hamidreza Houshmand, Gholamreza Houshmand, Mohammad Bahadoram

“…After evacuating the abscesses and administrating intravenous antibiotic, the patient’s condition improved dramatically and fever stopped.…”
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Investigations on the Effects of Dietary Essential Oils and Different Husbandry Conditions on the Gut Ecology in Piglets after Weaning by P. Janczyk, R. Pieper, V. Urubschurov, K. R. Wendler, W. B. Souffrant

“…Essential oils (EO) are being considered as possible alternatives to in-feed antibiotic growth promoters in pig nutrition. The effects of an EO mixture consisting of limonene, eugenol and pinene (10.0, 2.0, and 4.8 mg/kg diet, resp.) on gut physiology and ecology were studied in piglets. …”
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Peroxidase-like activity of citrate-functionalized magnetite nanoparticles augmented its antibacterial potency by Haitham Al-Madhagi, Abd Alraouf Tarabishi, Fatima Al-Zahra Hamsho, Zaher Tahan, Lama Alchab, Wassim Abdelwahed

“…In conclusion, citrate-decorated IOMNPs deserves further examination on antibiotic resistant strains and subsequent in vivo models as a novel antibacterial agent.…”
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Pradofloxacin Minimum Inhibitory Concentration Profiling of <i>Streptococcus suis</i> Isolates: Insights into Antimicrobial Susceptibility in Swine by Jessica Risser, Ronald Tessman, Don Bade, Orhan Sahin, Maria J. Clavijo, Saumya Dhup, Patrick Hoffmann

“…This study highlights pradofloxacin as an alternative antimicrobial therapy for swine respiratory diseases, offering a potential solution amidst rising concerns over antibiotic resistance.…”
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Marked Direct Hyperbilirubinemia due to Ceftriaxone in an Adult with Sickle Cell Disease by Daniyeh Khurram, Leonid Shamban, Robert Kornas, Maryann Paul

“…Ceftriaxone is a commonly used antibiotic and has been associated with reversible biliary sludge, pseudolithiasis, and cholestasis. …”
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Outcome and Prognostic Factors for Traumatic Endophthalmitis over a 5-Year Period by Simona Delia Nicoară, Iulian Irimescu, Tudor Călinici, Cristina Cristian

“…Initial visual acuities varied between light perception and 0.4 and the timing of treatment from a few hours to 10 days. We administered antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drugs, systemically and intravitreally, in all cases. …”
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Muribaculum intestinale-derived 3-hydroxybutyric acid from Heterophyllin B attenuated pulmonary fibrosis through IDO1-mediated ferroptosis by Ce Chen, Jialin Wang, Mengqin Cheng, Haifeng Xie, Wei Li, Chaofeng Zhang

“…Subsequently, the microbiota-dependent antifibrotic efficacy of HB was verified using various delivery routes, antibiotic treatments, and faecal microbiota transplantation. …”
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Predisposing Factors, Microbial Characteristics, and Clinical Outcome of Microbial Keratitis in a Tertiary Centre in Hong Kong: A 10-Year Experience by Alex Lap-Ki Ng, Kelvin Kai-Wang To, Chile Chi-Lai Choi, Leonard Hsu Yuen, Suk-Ming Yim, Keith Shun-Kit Chan, Jimmy Shiu-Ming Lai, Ian Yat-Hin Wong

“…To study the risk factors, microbial profile, antibiotic susceptibility pattern, and outcome for microbial keratitis over the past 10 years in a tertiary center in Hong Kong. …”
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Structural and Functional Annotation of Hypothetical Proteins of O139 by Md. Saiful Islam, Shah Md. Shahik, Md. Sohel, Noman I. A. Patwary, Md. Anayet Hasan

“…The analysis revealed that these proteins might have antibiotic resistance activity, DNA breaking-rejoining activity, integrase enzyme activity, restriction endonuclease, etc. …”
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Neonatal Septicemia in Nepal: Early-Onset versus Late-Onset by Shamshul Ansari, Hari Prasad Nepal, Rajendra Gautam, Sony Shrestha, Puja Neopane, Moti Lal Chapagain

“…The growth was identified by standard microbiological protocol and the antibiotic sensitivity testing was carried out by modified Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method. …”
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UV-Enhanced removal of enrofloxacin in water using oyster shell-derived CaO-ZnO composite by Sihombing Mastavioni, Azizah Nurfiah, Febriyanti Siti, Miraza Adithya Zulfadli, Prajaputra Vicky, Isnaini Nadia, Karina Sofyatuddin, Riswan M.

“…The contamination of aquatic environments by enrofloxacin, a commonly used veterinary antibiotic, poses serious risks to both ecosystem health and human safety. …”
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Characterization of marine coral fragment-derived calcium oxide and its performance in chloramphenicol removal from water by Karina Sofyatuddin, Prajaputra Vicky, Isnaini Nadia, Rahayu Putri Sri, Sihombing Mastavioni

“…Chloramphenicol, a widely used antibiotic, is a persistent pollutant in aquatic environments, posing a threat to both human health and aquatic ecosystems. …”
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Cyclic di AMP phosphodiesterase nanovaccine elicits protective immunity against Burkholderia cenocepacia infection in mice by Wesam E. Gawad, Yosra I. Nagy, Tamer M. Samir, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Mansour, Omneya M. Helmy

“…Treatment is challenging due to intrinsic antibiotic multiresistance, so vaccination provides an alternative approach. …”
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A CDFT-Based Computational Peptidology (CDFT-CP) Study of the Chemical Reactivity and Bioactivity of the Marine-Derived Alternaramide Cyclopentadepsipeptide by Norma Flores-Holguín, Juan Frau, Daniel Glossman-Mitnik

“…Alternaramide is a cyclic pentadepsipeptide isolated from marine sources that has been shown to present weak antibiotic activity against Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus as well as inhibitory effects on inflammatory mediator expressions. …”
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Diagnosis of Vitreoretinal Aspergillosis with Transvitreal Retinochoroidal Biopsy by Krishi Peddada, Nida M. Khan, Jascha Rubin, Haykanush Zakaryan, Yaobin Liu, Nikolay Popnikolov, Roshun Sangani, Weiye Li

“…However, the patient’s vision and mental status continued to clinically decline despite being started on intravitreal and systemic antibiotic and antifungal therapy. Neuroimaging revealed rim-enhancing brain lesions. …”
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