Word: antibioticized
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-- A bacterial infection that can cause skin lesions, fever and even death without prompt antibiotic treatment has been traced to cats. About 25% of felines in a San Francisco study carried the R. henselae bacterium. People with weak immune systems are at special risk.
The new strategy involves implanting into the gums antibiotics or other germ killers so that they can attack bacteria in the pockets where they fester. Standard antibiotic pills, which some specialists have relied on, needlessly expose the entire body to a powerful drug and have not always proved effective. Gum...
One of the most promising of the new therapies, first available in Italy, is a product called Actisite. It looks something like dental floss but actually consists of an organic fiber coated with the antibiotic tetracycline. Packed deep in the gums, the medicinal thread remains in place for seven to...
TOOTH FILLINGS HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF EVERYTHING from picking up radio transmissions to causing learning disabilities. Now comes another charge that could stick: fillings may be partly to blame for the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The first indication that the disease could be tamed if not cured came in 1987, when physicians discovered how to prevent pneumocystis pneumonia, a secondary infection of the lungs that caused one-third of AIDS deaths. At the + time, pneumocystis was treated with a drug called pentamidine, which was given...