Importance of Using Antibiotics Correctly and Completing the Prescribed Dose
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The misuse of antibiotics coupled to a decrease in the number of novel drugs entering the clinic has led to the development of antibiotic...
Identifying the Enemy
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We are surrounded by tiny organisms all around us. To scientists, they are microorganisms, but the general public usually identifies them as “bugs.” To...
Hand Hygiene Nigeria: Implementation Lessons
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Infection prevention and control in health care settings in Nigeria is still very poor. Improvement in hand hygiene is fundamental to patient safety and...
What do We Mean When We Talk about “Cleaning” and “Disinfecting”?
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When educating the public, we often use words like clean, disinfect, and processed interchangeably. What is often overlooked is that to infection control practitioners, the differences are...
Antibiotic Resistance is Everybody’s Responsibility
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This article is about my family’s experience with antibiotics
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Antibiotic resistance is everybody’s responsibility
In 1932 my grandfather’s first wife died of tuberculosis. It wasn’t until...
FDA Ruling On TRANS FATS (PHOs)
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This article provides some information about the current state of trans fats regulation in the United States and the European Union.
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Regulation in the...
Four lesser known facts about Dengue
Like many tropical countries, India witnesses a cyclical spike in the number of Dengue cases every 4-5 years1. The current year has been one...
Antibiotic Resistance – The return of the Four Horsemen
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Antibiotics are almost single-handedly responsible for eliminating deaths and mortality caused by infectious disease. However, antibiotic resistance is disseminating among deadly pathogens, returning us...
Canada Putting Up No Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
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A number of recent developments in the last three months have catapulted antimicrobial resistance onto the world stage. Many other countries, such as the...
The case for Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Student Call to Action.
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Antibiotic resistance is a modern-day crisis. Medical professionals are quickly running out of antibiotics that we can use to treat deadly bacterial infections and...