Invasive penicillin-resistant pneumococcal infections: a ...
Penicillin resistance. Ods such as fruits, vegetables, raw eggs, and undercooked meat can also reduce the chance of an infection. edit Vaccines Vaccines do not suffer the problem of resistance because a vaccine enhances the body's natural defenses, while an antibiotic operates separately from the body's normal defenses. Nevertheless, new strains may evolve that escape immunity induced by vaccines. While theoretically promising, anti-staphylococcal vaccines have shown limited efficacy, because of immunological variation between Staphylococcus species, and the limited duration of effectiveness of the antibodies produced. Development and testing of more effective vaccines is under way. edit Phage therapy Phage therapy is a more recent alternative that can cope with the problem of resistance. It requires viruses to invade and therefore infect bacterial cells without the use of antibiotics. edit Development of newer antibiotics The resistance problem demands that a renewed effort be made to seek antibacterial age
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Inhibition of the expression of penicillin resistance in ...
Nts effective against pathogenic bacteria resistant to current antibiotics. One of the possible strategies towards this objective is the rational localization of bioactive phytochemicals. Plants have an almost limitless ability to synthesize aromatic substances, most of which are phenols or their oxygen-substituted derivatives such as tannins. Most are secondary metabolites, of which at least 12,000 have been isolated, a number estimated to be less than 10% of the total citation needed . In many cases, these substances serve as plant defense mechanisms against predation by micro-organisms, insects, and herbivores. Many of the herbs and spices used by humans to season food yield useful medicinal compounds including those having antibacterial activity. Traditional healers have long used plants to prevent or cure infectious conditions. Many of these plants have been investigated scientifically for antimicrobial activity and a large number of plant products have been shown to inhibit growt
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