Penicillin

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Title:   Penicillin for secondary prevention of rheumatic fever
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:   Apr 2002
Title:   Penicillins for the prophylaxis of bacterial endocarditis in dentistry
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is a lack of evidence to support published guidelines in this area. It is not clear whether the potential harms and costs of penicillin administration outweigh any beneficial effect. Ethically practitioners need to discuss the potential benefits a...
Date:   Feb 2004
Title:   Intramuscular penicillin for the prevention of early onset group B streptococcal infection in newborn infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Group-B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common bacteria which can be passed from the mother to the newborn and can lead to infection in the first week of life (neonatal Early Onset Group-B Streptococcal Disease or EOGBSD). Although rare, (approximately one per...
Date:   Jan 2004
Title:   Medical mishap. Cross-reactivity of penicillins and cephalosporins
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:   Underneath the RADAR: moxifloxacin
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:   Antibiotics for acute maxillary sinusitis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Antibiotics provide a minor improvement in simple (uncomplicated) sinus infections. However, 8 out of 10 patients improve without antibiotics within two weeks. The small benefit gained may be overridden by the negative effects of antibiotics, both on th...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Antibiotic regimens for endometritis after delivery
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Inflammation of the lining of the womb (postpartum endometritis), also known as puereral fever, is caused by infection entering the womb (uterus) during childbirth. It occurs in about 1% to 3% of births, and is up to ten times more common after caesarea...
Date:   Jul 2004
Title:   Meningococcal - Australian Meningococcal Surveillance Programme annual reports
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:   Jul 2007
Title:   Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease
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:   May 2002
Title:   Antibiotics for syphilis diagnosed during pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Syphilis is a potentially fatal, sexually transmitted disease that passes from a pregnant woman to her unborn baby. If the woman is untreated, her baby may be born with the disease, suffer permanent disability and be disfigured. The effectiveness of pen...
Date:   Mar 2001
Title:   Common questions about the management of meningococcal disease
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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