antibiotics

Estimating Long COVID-19 prevalence across definitions and forms of sample selection Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio, Fabio Borgonovo, Alessandro Manzo Margiotta, Mohamed Mowafy, Marta Colaneri, Alessandra Bandera, Andrea Gori, Amedeo Ferdinando Capetti [Line breaks added] Abstract Long COVID (LC) is...

New antibiotic offers hope for more effective Lyme disease treatment

Oral minocycline therapy as first-line treatment in patients with Myalgic encephalomyelitis and long COVID: A pilot study Kunihisa Miwa [In Press, Journal Pre-proof] Background Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is associated with long COVID and also untoward sequelae after anti-coronavirus...

Abstract Antibiotic use is a risk factor for development of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). IBDs are characterized by a damaged mucus layer, which does not separate the intestinal epithelium from the microbiota. Here, we hypothesized that antibiotics affect the integrity of the mucus...

Antibiotics prescribed to thousands could be life-threatening (msn.com)

https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(24)00117-8/fulltext Highlights Our study included 892,312 patients with COVID-19 across 173 studies spanning over 50 countries. It revealed a substantial prevalence of MDRO infection (42.1%) in COVID-19 patients, and a notable overall...

Abstract The bacteriophage behavior of SARS-CoV-2 during the acute and post-COVID-19 phases appears to be an important factor in the development of the disease. The early use of antibiotics seems to be crucial to inhibit disease progression—to prevent viral replication in the gut microbiome...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61381-9#Fig1 Doxycycline has anti-tumour effects in a range of tumour systems. The aims of this study were to define the role mitochondria play in this process and examine the potential of doxycycline in combination with gemcitabine. We studied the...

Copied post COMMENTARY: IS THERE A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR TREATING PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME WITH PROLONGED COURSES OF DOXYCYCLINE? CommDisBull 10(2)-May final2012.pdf (nicd.ac.za) might contain info of interest. [Edit:the link is to an article from the May 2012 edition of South...

"The emergence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics is often attributed to the overuse of antibiotics in people and livestock. But researchers have homed in on another potential driver of resistance: antidepressants. By studying bacteria grown in the laboratory, a team...

Merged thread This is a very long article, i've only gotten through about 20% of it so far https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/the-best-viral-news-youll-ever-read-antibiotic-resistance-phage-therapy-bacteriophage-virus/

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I'm currently taking nitrofurantoin for an infection. Initially I was so happy to be diagnosed with the infection because I had no idea I had one (only got diagnosed because I passed out at a bus stop, knocked my head and had to go to A&E for concussion...) I thought that getting the infection...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31737957 Given how incredibly common it was for kids in my generation to get prescribed antibiotics for ear and sinus infections, I wonder what other disease it could presuppose to...

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/antibiotics/Common-allergy-drug-makes-resistant/97/i24

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/03/22/single-course-antibiotics-may-cause-irreversible-damage-crucial/ The rest is behind a paywall, but, if you register, you can read one or two articles a month for free.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0212222

Blog in the BMJ, LSHTM tweeted about it today. The "evidence" for patient blaming does not stand up to scrutiny..... https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/02/01/educating-patients-or-blaming-them-public-education-campaigns-on-antibiotic-resistance/

Mental health issues? Autism? Or really an infection causing changes to the brain? Interesting article from BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46989099 “A mother is calling for greater awareness of a little-known condition she believes changed her easy-going son...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46919853