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Penicillin
Follow the links below to find information about penicillin and its use in treating bacterial infections.
Reviewed October 2011
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| Title: | Meningococcal - Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme annual reports |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme is funded by the Federal health department to provide laboratory analysis of meninococcal isolates in Australia. The Programme produces an annual report on its findings. This page contains the annual reports, in both HTML and PDF format, from 1995. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | People with sickle cell disease (SCD) are especially prone to respiratory infections and blood poisoning. These infections are often caused by pneumococcal bacteria. Infections occur partly due to the spleen not working correctly, but also because damag... |
| Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Title: | Antibiotics for acute maxillary sinusitis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Sinusitis is one of the most common reasons for visiting a doctor, with 20 million visits for this condition every year in the USA alone. There are four pairs of sinuses linked to the bony structures around the nose: the maxillary, frontal, ethmoidal an... |
| Date: | Mar 2010 |
| Title: | Antibiotics for syphilis diagnosed during pregnancy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Penicillin is effective in curing syphilis during pregnancy but more research is needed on the best dosage and duration of treatment. Syphilis is a potentially fatal, sexually transmitted disease that passes from a pregnant woman to her unborn baby. If ... |
| Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Title: | Penicillin for secondary prevention of rheumatic fever |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Rheumatic fever is a rare complication of throat infection, that can damage the heart. People who have had rheumatic fever can suffer from it again following streptococcal throat infection if they do not receive regular penicillin. Penicillin for preven... |
| Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Title: | Penicillin and other antibiotic allergy |
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| Publisher: | Virtual Medical Centre.com |
| Description: | Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of Penicillin and Antibiotic allergy by professional health specialists. |
| Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Title: | Antibiotics for the prophylaxis of bacterial endocarditis in dentistry |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | There is no evidence about whether antibiotic prophylaxis is effective or ineffective against bacterial endocarditis in people at risk who are about to undergo an invasive dental procedure.There is a lack of evidence to support previously published guid... |
| Date: | Jul 2008 |
| Title: | Medical mishap. Cross-reactivity of penicillins and cephalosporins |
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| Publisher: | Australian Prescriber |
| Description: | A 73-year-old man collapsed at home. Ambulance officers noted impalpable blood pressure, shortness of breath and complaints of right-sided chest and epigastric pains. |
| Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Title: | Antibiotic regimens for endometritis after delivery |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Intravenous gentamicin plus clindamycin more effective than other antibiotics for endometritis after childbirth. Inflammation of the lining of the womb (postpartum endometritis), also known as puereral fever, is caused by infection entering the womb (ut... |
| Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Title: | Intramuscular penicillin for the prevention of early onset group B streptococcal infection in newborn infants |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Not enough evidence to know whether giving antibiotics as a routine to new born babies reduces group B streptococcus infection in the first week of life. Group-B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common bacteria which can be passed from the mother to the newborn... |
| Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Title: | Underneath the RADAR: moxifloxacin |
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| Publisher: | Australian Prescriber |
| Description: | The quinolone antibiotic moxifloxacin has been listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), for the oral treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in adults and children over 12 years old who have immediate hypersensitivity to penicillin. This new listing extends the number of patients who can be treated with moxifloxacin. |
| Date: | Dec 2003 |
| Title: | Common questions about the management of meningococcal disease |
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| Publisher: | Australian Prescriber |
| Description: | The common causes of bacterial meningitis are N. meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Listeria monocytogenes and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib).2 Since the use of routine immunisation against Hib, and immunisation of at-risk populations against S. pneumoniae, N. meningitidis is now the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in Australia. |
| Date: | Jan 1999 |
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