Candida glabrata Pneumonia in a Patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Onur Yazici, Mustafa Cortuk, Hasan Casim, Erdogan Cetinkaya, Ali Mert, Ali Ramazan Benli

“…Candidiasis in such patients has been associated with haemodialysis, fungal colonization, exposure to broad-spectrum antibiotics, intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalization, and immunocompromised patients. …”
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A Rare Case of Persistent Bacteremia: Leadless Micra Pacemaker Endocarditis by Himax Patel, Sean Harrell, Haitham Hreibe, Musa Sharkawi, Wael AlJaroudi

“…In patients with leadless pacing system that is persistently bacteremic in the future, evaluation of the device with transesophageal echocardiogram or intracardiac echocardiography should be performed, and if vegetation is noted on the device, device extraction should highly be considered, along with empiric intravenous antibiotics. Lastly, new leadless device should not be re-implanted within 2 weeks of the removal of the infected device to prevent seeding of the new device.…”
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Enumeration of Antibacterial Activity of Few Medicinal Plants by Bioassay Method by B. Uma Reddy

“…It is clear from the results that, the extracts of these plants acts as a good source of antibiotics against various bacterial pathogens tested and exhibited broad spectrum of antibacterial activity. …”
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Capnocytophaga Induced Acute Necrotizing and Exudative Pericarditis with Abscess Formation by Alexa Bello, Alejandro Castaneda, Abhay Vakil, Joseph Varon, Salim Surani

“…In developed countries, pericardial abscess and acute pericarditis are uncommon due to availability of broad-spectrum antibiotics. Pericardial abscess due to Capnocytophaga is even more uncommon.…”
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Streptococcal Infections of Fish by Roy Yanong, Ruth Francis-Floyd

“…Diagnosis involves identifying Gram-positive cocci in affected tissues, while treatment options include specific antibiotics like erythromycin, amoxicillin, and florfenicol, contingent on sensitivity testing. …”
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Streptococcal Infections of Fish by Roy Yanong, Ruth Francis-Floyd

“…Diagnosis involves identifying Gram-positive cocci in affected tissues, while treatment options include specific antibiotics like erythromycin, amoxicillin, and florfenicol, contingent on sensitivity testing. …”
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<i>Mycobacterium fortuitum</i> abdominal wall abscesses following liposuction by Hussam Al Soub, Eman Al-Maslamani, Mona Al-Maslamani

“…The clues for diagnosis were persistent pus discharge in spite of broad spectrum antibiotics and failure to grow any organisms on routine culture. …”
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Klebsiella pneumoniae Renal Abscess Syndrome: A Rare Case with Metastatic Involvement of Lungs, Eye, and Brain by Divyanshu Dubey, Fayez S. Raza, Anshudha Sawhney, Ambarish Pandey

“…She was treated with IV antibiotics and made a gradual but full recovery.…”
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Vancomycin Hypersensitivity Diagnosed by Lymphocyte Blast Transformation by Nguyen P. Tran, Jeremy Katcher, Erin Rohman, Mary Francis Hall, Christie F. Michael, Isao Miyairi, D. Betty Lew

“…A 15-year-old male admitted for Pott's puffy tumor developed recurrent episodes of fever, diffuse morbilliform rash, eosinophilia, and tubulointerstitial nephritis while on multiple antibiotics. Lymphocyte blast transformation (LBT), a method of detecting cellular immune response by measuring levels of interferon-γ (IFN-γ), was used to diagnose vancomycin hypersensitivity and guide antibiotic selection.…”
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A Case Report of Steroid-Resistant Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Managed with Intravenous Immunoglobulins by Christian Akem Dimala, Urvi Patel, Benjamin Lloyd, Anthony Donato, William B. Kimmel, Robert Hallowell, Caitlyn Moss

“…Following no improvement with antibiotics and negative complementary investigations for infectious, malignant, and autoimmune etiologies, COP was confirmed on lung biopsy. …”
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Acute Haematogenous Metacarpal Osteomyelitis in Children: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Jordi Colomina Morales, Laura Soria Villegas, Joan Carles Monllau García

“…Serratia marcescens was found to be the pathogenic agent. Treatment was antibiotics and debridement. Bone healed with little length discrepancy but functional result was normal.…”
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Traumatic Endophthalmitis due to Cellulosimicrobium cellulans by Pimkwan Jaru-ampornpan, Anita Agarwal, Narinder K. Midha, Stephen J. Kim

“…To our knowledge, this is the first report of traumatic endophthalmitis due to C. cellulans, which did not respond to intravitreal antibiotics or repeat vitrectomy and ultimately led to the discovery of an occult intraocular foreign body. …”
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Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating effects of clarithromycin in patients with cystic fibrosis lung disease by Alexander L. Pukhalsky, Galina V. Shmarina, Nikolai I. Kapranov, Svetlana N. Kokarovtseva, Daria Pukhalskaya, Natalia J. Kashirskaja

“…BACKGROUND and aim: Macrolide antibiotics are widely used in the treatment of suppurative lung diseases including cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common inherited fatal disease in the Caucasian population. …”
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Refractory Epistaxis due to Severe Factor V Deficiency with Inhibitor by Elizabeth S. John, Minesh D. Patel, Julio Hajdenberg

“…Factor V deficiency secondary to inhibitors is extremely rare and can be caused by a wide collection of exposures such as bovine thrombin and beta lactamase antibiotics. The management of factor V deficiency with inhibitor is a condition treated based on case reports due to the rarity of this condition. …”
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Induction of Oxidative Stress in Kidney by Emin Ozbek

“…Several systemic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and hypercholesterolemia; infection; antibiotics, chemotherapeutics, and radiocontrast agents; and environmental toxins, occupational chemicals, radiation, smoking, as well as alcohol consumption induce oxidative stress in kidney. …”
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Managing Conflicts with Wildlife: Living with Frogs by Steven A. Johnson, Holly K. Ober, William M. Giuliano

“…Research on the substances frogs secrete through their skins has even led to the creation of new painkillers and antibiotics. Most frogs in Florida are reclusive and harmless to people, but two species of frogs that have invaded Florida can be harmful to humans and their pets. …”
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Removal of Tetracycline Using Tungsten Disulfide/Graphene Oxide as Photocatalyst: Effect of Light Irradiation and Kinetic Studies by Zulhatiqah Zolekafeli, Syafarina Farisa Sateria, Ahmad Husaini Mohamed, Siti Hajar Alias, Kavirajaa Pandian Sambasevam, Siti Nor Atika Baharin

“…Once widely utilised in both human and veterinary medicine, tetracycline antibiotics are now recognised as major environmental pollutants with detrimental effects on the environment and human health. …”
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Machine learning and genetic algorithm-guided directed evolution for the development of antimicrobial peptides by Heqian Zhang, Yihan Wang, Yanran Zhu, Pengtao Huang, Qiandi Gao, Xiaojie Li, Zhaoying Chen, Yu Liu, Jiakun Jiang, Yuan Gao, Jiaquan Huang, Zhiwei Qin

“…Introduction: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are valuable alternatives to traditional antibiotics, possess a variety of potent biological activities and exhibit immunomodulatory effects that alleviate difficult-to-treat infections. …”
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Staphylococcus aureus nt5 gene mutation through CRISPR RNA-guided base editing weakens bacterial virulence and immune evasion by Xinpeng Liu, Lan Huang, Yang Ye, Haiyi Wang, Min Tang, Fuqiang He, Zijing Xia, Shi Deng, Peng Zhang, Ruiwu Dai, Shufang Liang

“…The resistance of commonly used clinical antibiotics, such as daptomycin (DAP), has become increasingly serious in the fight against Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) infection. …”
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The availability of drugs for stable COPD treatment in China: a cross-sectional survey by Dongru Du, Xueru Hu, Qiunan Zuo, Dan Xu, Tao Zhu, Tao Fan, Jiao Yang, Weiguo Xu, Hailong Wei, Kangzhuo Baima, Ying Zhang, Yanhui Gu, Lei Chen, Fengming Luo, Yongchun Shen, Fuqiang Wen

“…Both inhaled drugs (monotherapy, double therapy and triple therapy) and oral drugs (expectorants, theophylline, antibiotics, and bacterial lysates) were included in this survey. …”
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