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Antimicrobial Resistance In Chile And The One Health Paradigm: Dealing With Threats To Human And Veterinary Health Resulting From Antimicrobial Use In Salmon Aquaculture And The Clinic, Ana Millanao, Carolina Barrientos-Schaffeld, Claudio D. Siegel-Tike, Alexandra Tomova, Larisa Ivanova, Henry P. Godfrey, Humberto J. Dolz, Alejandro H. Buschmann, Felipe C. Cabello
Antimicrobial Resistance In Chile And The One Health Paradigm: Dealing With Threats To Human And Veterinary Health Resulting From Antimicrobial Use In Salmon Aquaculture And The Clinic, Ana Millanao, Carolina Barrientos-Schaffeld, Claudio D. Siegel-Tike, Alexandra Tomova, Larisa Ivanova, Henry P. Godfrey, Humberto J. Dolz, Alejandro H. Buschmann, Felipe C. Cabello
NYMC Faculty Publications
The emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (ARB) is currently seen as one of the major threats to human and animal public health. Veterinary use of antimicrobials in both developing and developed countries is many-fold greater than their use in human medicine and is an important determinant in selection of ARB. In light of the recently outlined National Plan Against Antimicrobial Resistance in Chile, our findings on antimicrobial use in salmon aquaculture and their impact on the environment and human health are highly relevant. Ninety-five percent of tetracyclines, phenicols and quinolones imported into Chile between 1998 and 2015 were for …
Do Antibiotics In Early Life Contribute To Obesity?, Shimon Kadosh
Do Antibiotics In Early Life Contribute To Obesity?, Shimon Kadosh
The Science Journal of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences
In recent years, science has made great strides in its understanding of the microbiome, discovering that it plays a role in regulating many body processes. One area of study is the microbiomes interaction and influence on host metabolic processes. Studies using both mice and humans have established a clear correlation between obesity and the composition of the microbiome, identifying a microbiome unique to obese individuals. Furthermore, experiments with germ-free mice have shown that the microbiome effects host metabolism, causing germ free mice to increase in mass when inoculated with normal microbiota. Inoculation with microbiota from obese mice yielded greater increases …
Silver Nanoparticles And Drug Resistant Bacteria, Aliza Eisig
Silver Nanoparticles And Drug Resistant Bacteria, Aliza Eisig
The Science Journal of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences
The scientist who discovered penicillin and its use as an antibiotic, Alexander Fleming, also raised concerns about bacterial resistance. As he predicted, in the twenty first century, the overwhelming use of antibiotics has led to both drug- and multi-drug resistant bacteria. This paper attempts to investigate the antibacterial potential of silver nanoparticles against drug resistant bacteria. By using Touro's online library database, the efficacy of silver nanoparticles as a potential antibacterial agent was comprehensively researched. Using transmission electron microscopy and the disk diffusion method, silver nanoparticles have been found to exert bactericidal effects by adsorbing to the cell surface and …
Mrsa Causing Infections In Hospitals In Greater Metropolitan New York: Major Shift In The Dominant Clonal Type Between 1996 And 2014, Maria Pardos De La Gandara, Judith Berger, David Burstein, Phyllis Della-Latta, Guiqing Wang, Alexander Tomasz
Mrsa Causing Infections In Hospitals In Greater Metropolitan New York: Major Shift In The Dominant Clonal Type Between 1996 And 2014, Maria Pardos De La Gandara, Judith Berger, David Burstein, Phyllis Della-Latta, Guiqing Wang, Alexander Tomasz
NYMC Faculty Publications
A surveillance study in 1996 identified the USA100 clone (ST5/SCCmecII)-also known as the "New York/Japan" clone-as the most prevalent MRSA causing infections in 12 New York City hospitals. Here we update the epidemiology of MRSA in seven of the same hospitals eighteen years later in 2013/14. Most of the current MRSA isolates (78 of 121) belonged to the MRSA clone USA300 (CC8/SCCmecIV) but the USA100 clone-dominant in the 1996 survey-still remained the second most frequent MRSA (25 of the 121 isolates) causing 32% of blood stream infections. The USA300 clone was most common in skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) …
Efficacy Of Probiotics Lactobacillus Rhamnosus Gg And Saccharomyces Boulardii In The Treatment Of Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea And Clostridium Diffiicile-Associated Disease, Estie Klugmann
The Science Journal of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences
Antibiotic therapy may cause serious side effects. Two disturbing effects of antibiotic administration are antibiotic-associated diarrhea and Clostridium difficile-associated disorder. Antibiotic-associated diarrhea occurs as a direct result of the normal flora destruction due to the antibiotics - which do not discriminate against pathogens or healthy forms of bacteria. C. diff disorder also occurs as an indirect result of antibiotic administration, because the destruction of the normal flora prevents people from having healthy bacteria to prevent disease. There have been studies conducted to determine if replacing the destroyed normal flora with probiotics, or beneficial microorganisms will prevent or treat these conditions. …