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You may be aware of recent food product recalls associated with food poisoning due to listeria contamination: ready-to-eat products, deli meats, sandwiches, protein snacks, chicken, turkey, cheese and dairy products. The list is long as Listeria is ubiquitous in the environment. One can find it in meat and milk/cheese products Continue reading LISTERIA: Food Recalls, Outbreaks, and Resistance
Pfizer discontinued US distribution of spectinomycin (Trobicin®) in November 2005; remaining inventory expired in May 2006 [1]. Nonetheless, at the FDA website we still find a Package Insert for Trobicin updated as late as Aug 2012, a thin 6-page leaflet which seems to have survived from the 80s. The drug is Continue reading The CDC and Spectinomycin
Besides ceftriaxone (CTRIAX), cefixime and spectinomycin we have no other highly effective single-dose treatment regimens for urogenital GC. Failures of all 3 drugs have been described but remain rare, can be overcome with higher doses of CTRIAX (1 g instead of 250 mg IM) or with azithromycin combination therapy. Worse Continue reading GC Therapy – Shooting for the Stars