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...compared with roughly 30% in the West. "Resistance has risen dramatically in the past 10 years," says Tong, who is also a leading researcher on antibiotic resistance. He notes that a survey of 10 cities conducted three years ago revealed that in Shenyang, all pneumonia cases exhibited resistance to erythromycin...
...seeing a doctor. Most of the time the cause is viral, and you can ease your suffering with chicken soup and a painkiller like acetaminophen. But sometimes the problem is a kind of bacteria called group A streptococcus--or strep, for short. That's when antibiotics like penicillin or erythromycin come in handy. Early spring is a peak season for strep throat. If you have a sore throat that is accompanied by a fever but not a cough, your lymph nodes are swollen and there are yellow or white patches on your tonsils or the back of your throat, chances...
...magic bullet against staphylococcal infections. The problem was, it failed to kill every single bug, and those that survived the onslaught slowly began to multiply. The result: by the 1950s most staph infections had become highly resistant to penicillin. The same fate met penicillin's successors, erythromycin and methicillin; now it appears to be vancomycin's turn...
Staphylococcus aureus, an "elite force" in the bacteria battalion, is an adaptable organism that has always developed antibiotic resistance with haste. For example, staphylococcus aureus becomes resistant to erythromycin, a protein inhibitor, after only seven to ten days. Resistance to penicillin developed a few years after its commercial production in 1941, and resistance to four or more antibiotics became the norm for 40 percent of the strains by the end of the 1950s...
...handle the typical amount of a drug, who do not know that they are allergic to it, or who inadvertently create toxic combinations by taking different drugs concurrently. The FDA's proposed "MedGuides" would alert people to such common hazards as taking the allergy medicine Seldane with the antibiotic erythromycin, or from simultaneously taking digitalis and the heart medicine Cardizem. Opponents of the bill say doctors, drug companies and pharmacists can monitor the hazards adequately without new regulations. "Most people are certainly already aware of the potential for interaction between two or more prescription drugs," says TIME's Alice Park...