Medscape A gentleman who had undergone successful pulmonary-vein isolation in 2009 contacted me after he took a second dose of a macrolide antibiotic prescribed for bronchitis. His palpitations were so severe that he was convinced his atrial fibrillation had ...
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Their study (“Sequence selectivity of macrolide -induced translational attenuation”) was published in PNAS. Staphylococcus aureus is a strain of bacteria that frequently has become resistant to antibiotics, a development that has been challenging for ...
CNNMoney Azithromycin (Azi) is a macrolide antibiotic related to erythromycin. It is used primarily to treat various bacterial infections caused by respiratory pathoge...
Dairy Herd Management In a study reported this week in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers from the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Texas Tech University report detecting antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in particulate matter ... and more »
JEMS.com Some common classes of drugs known to prolong the QT interval are antiarrhythmic drugs, macrolide antibiotics, certain psychotropic medications and gastric motility agents. Hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia may also predispose a patient to TDP.
HCPLive Community-acquired pneumonia presents a number of dilemmas. Patients may be elderly or frail and it's sometimes difficult to identify the infectious organism initially. There is considerable debate about the selection of an appropriate antibiotic or ...
Seeking Alpha Cempra's (NASDAQ:CEMP) Solithromycin seems to be the answer to such macrolide resistant pathogens and that too with minimal side effects. The drug is a ketolide which makes it more potent than prevalent macrolide treatments but does not have the side ... and more »
Equities.com Cempra Inc. (CEMP) , with a valuation approaching $1 billion ($1B), is not a small cap, but "has a promising macrolide antibiotic, solithromycin, which just read out Phase 3. It's for community-acquired pneumonia and other indications." He also likes ...
Healio “Widespread use of 1g azithromycin for M. genitalium has been associated with emergence of macrolide resistance and declining cure rates in some settings,” researchers wrote in Clinical Infectious Diseases. “Moxifloxacin has been shown to be effective ...
