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Antibiotic Resistance Treatment Through Placebos and Vancomycin

as the last hope when trying to cure a bacterial disease" (Introduction to Vancomycin: a history, 2002). Like most antibiotics,...

Antibiotics Resisting Bacteria and the Theory of Evolution

are prokaryotic organisms. This translates to mean that their cellular nuclei lack a nuclear membrane. Consequently, even though...

Are Children Today Receiving Too Much Medication?

pill for a minor ailment only serves to build up the bodys immunity so that if it is taken enough, it will no longer be effective ...

Super Germs That Resist Antibiotics

period, penicillin resistance rose from 21.7 percent for strep strains in 1996 to 26.6 percent in 1999 (Study shows, 2003). Repo...

Growth of Bacteria and the Impact of Antibiotics

In five pages this paper discusses how antibiotics affects the growth of bacteria. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms

"with the topical antimicrobial agent mupirocin reduces the rate of infection from endogenous strains, but it does not reduce the ...

Antibiotic Resistance and Nursing Implications

is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...

The Treatment of Hordeolum

chlamydial, and rickettsial organisms" (Bessette, 2004). Inhibits bacterial protein synthesis (Bessette, 2004). E. Cloxacillin: "...

Resistance to Antibiotics

In five pages the resistance to bacteria as a result of so called 'quick fixes' are discussed in terms of how eventually antibioti...

Nursing History and Controlling Infection

This history of nursing considers how antibiotic and antisepsis control of infections developed in five pages. Two sources are ci...

Milk and Residual Antibiotic Contamination

In fifteen pages this paper discusses milk that is commercially produced in terms of where antibiotics originate and how to elimin...

Antibiotics Prescribing Without a Culture

In five pages this paper discusses the prescribing of antibiotics without a culture from an ethical perspective. Five sources are...

Occurrence and Evolution of Bacteria That is Antibiotic Resistant

In an overview consisting of eight pages the resistance in bacteria to antibiotics and a landfill where this occurs are discussed....

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Antibiotic Use, and Childhood Infections

In six pages Sydenham's chorea is discussed as it relates to obsessive compulsive disorder and the treatment of strep throat with ...

Cosmetics Industry and Gram Positive Microbial Resistance

In eight pages this paper discusses how overusing antibiotics can result in developing a resistance to them in a cosmetics industr...

Vitamin K Deficiency

A case study is used as a springboard for discussion. Vitamin K deficiency is the focus of attention but overuse of antibiotics is...

Don't Buy CAFO Products

These really huge livestock farms can make a chicken reach 2.2 pounds in 7 days instead of 16 weeks it used to take. These are ope...

A Research Project on Antibiotic Resistance

antibiotic use, antibiotic-resistant bacterium, specifically methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), has led to the ne...

Mechanisms and Addresses for Antibiotic Resistant Microbes

As is emphasized by the article "Microbes: What Doesnt Kill Them Makes Them Stronger", antibiotic resistance is becoming a seriou...

Understanding Evolution and Natural Selection

now infamous journey. Darwin was in fact very familiar with the work of his grandfather and indeed with the work of others who ha...

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN BACTERIA AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

we go into the doctor with a bad sinus or bronchial infection, are given a particular antibiotic that we take and, after a few day...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

of settings ranging from nursing homes, to prisons, to athletic teams (Turabelidze, Mei Lin, Wolkoff, Dosson, Gladback, and Zhu, 2...

Anthrax Cause and Response

The disease known as Anthrax is caused by the highly infectious microorganism Bacillus anthracis. The bacteria...

Biological Warfare and Anthrax

The biological warfare potential of Bacillus anthracis bacteria is examined in eleven pages and includes epidemiology, current res...

A Medical Waste Landfill and Bacteria That is Antibiotic Resistant

The dangers anti resistant bacteria poses is examined within the context of Marysville, Washington's Tulalip landfill for medical ...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Dean W. Boening's Article 'Persistence and antibiotic immunity of bacteria from a wetland used as a medical waste landfill'

This 1997 article which appeared in Environmental Health is reviewed in two pages. There are no other sources cited....