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Antibiotics for gonorrhea

Gonorrhea must be treated, and with courses of antibiotic therapy. They are treated both with shock single doses of antibiotics in oral form, and with a standard regimen for a week. Let’s talk about which to use antibiotics for gonorrhea. For the treatment of acute gonorrhea, one antibiotic therapy is enough. In the chronic course, […]

Antibiotics for sexual infections

In the treatment of sexual infections and sexually transmitted diseases, the main role is given to antibiotics. When inflammation, skin rashes, secretions are detected, broad-spectrum drugs are prescribed, and antiviral and antifungal agents act as “assistants”. There are no replacement drugs for the treatment of STDs. Conditionally pathogenic and pathogenic bacteria – pale treponema, gonococci, […]

Antimicrobial drugs

According to the spectrum of activity, antimicrobial drugs are divided into: antibacterial, antifungal and antiprotozoal. In addition, all antimicrobial agents are divided into drugs of a narrow and wide spectrum of action. Drugs with a narrow spectrum of action mainly on gram-positive microorganisms include, for example, natural penicillins, macrolides, lincomycin, fusidin, oxacillin, vancomycin, cephalosporins of […]

Antibiotics in the age of Covid

Antibiotics in the age of Covid: Which have already lost their effectiveness due to their irrational use? What are “reserve antibiotics” and why are many antibiotics sold without a prescription? Treatment of coronavirus infection has once again stirred up the problem of rational antibiotic therapy. Despite the fact that now they are already talking about […]

Cephalosporins and macrolides: antibiotics of the XXI century

We have already described the penicillin group in detail in previous articles, and now we will move on to the next generation of antibiotics: cephalosporins and macrolides. Cephalosporins Microbes often act, if not intelligently, then quite logically. If they are threatened by antibiotics of the penicillin series, microbes begin to destroy penicillins (that would be […]

Evolution is racing, or why antibiotics stop working

Antibiotics stop working? Since the discovery of penicillin, humanity has been constantly conducting a kind of “arms race” with the world of bacteria, which have learned to adapt quickly after the advent of new antibiotics. And, alas, today in this race we have gradually begun to lag behind the opponent. In the face of the […]

Does amoxicillin retain its position today?

Over the past 100 years, a number of discoveries and inventions in the field of chemistry and medicine can rightfully be attributed to the most significant: vaccines, X-rays, blood substitutes, the discovery of the structure of DNA. But, according to doctors, it was penicillin that became the main medical, chemical and biological discovery of the […]

New antibiotics have been approved in the United States

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has registered a new indication for the use of Recarbrio (a combination of imipenem, cilastatin and relebactam) for the treatment of hospital pneumonia (GP) and ventilator-associated or ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (VAP) in patients aged 18 years and older. Previously, Recarbrio was registered for the treatment of severe infections […]

The world before antibiotics

The world before antibiotics: nowadays, it is difficult to even imagine that once a banal injury – a cut, wound or burn-could cost a person his life due to infection and subsequent blood poisoning. And such serious diseases as pneumonia, meningitis, tuberculosis or syphilis almost always meant a death sentence for the patient and the […]

Basic rules of antibacterial therapy

The basic rules of antibacterial therapy can be formulated as follows: Establish the causative agent of the disease; Determine the drugs to which the pathogen is most sensitive; In case of an unknown pathogen, use either a drug with a wide spectrum of action, or a combination of two drugs, the total spectrum of which […]

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