Managing antibiotic resistance
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Doctors need to join public health officials and the pharmaceutical industry to stop the inappropriate use of antibiotics and to promote the pneumococcal vaccine. Pneumococcal bacteria are the most common cause of pneumonia, meningitis, and blood infections and they are becoming resistant to many antibiotics.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2000
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Managing SARS amidst uncertainty
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The treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is reviewed. SARS is a viral lung infection that has affected over 3,000 people in 27 countries. It is caused by a coronavirus, which belongs to a group of viruses that also cause the common cold. As of May, 2003, 5% of all affected patients have died, and this is still less than the number of people who die from influenza every year.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2003
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Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: perspectives on measures needed for control
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Proposed guidelines may be helpful in preventing the spread of Staphylococcus (S.) aureus infections that are resistant to treatment with vancomycin. Researchers outlined guidelines to control the spread of vancomycin-resistant S. aureus should such a strain of this virus develop. Hospitals should isolate patients identified with this virus in strictly controlled private rooms, allow only a limited number of visitors and staff to enter the room, and notify disease control agencies about the infection. Visitors and staff should wear protective clothing and wash with medicated soap or isopropyl alcohol when leaving the room or during procedures that may release the virus into the air. Housekeeping staff should routinely disinfect all surfaces in the patient's room and treat cleaning cloths as biohazard material. Exposed health care workers should be routinely tested for evidence of infection. Recommended treatment is mupirocin. Laboratory workers should treat samples taken from infected patients as biohazard material.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 1996
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