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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
There is much interest in inhaled antibiotics these days. Prima facie, the logic for this approach is compelling: Getting the antibiotic (and a lot of it) directly to the site of infection, while avoiding systemic toxicity, sounds like optimized efficacy plus optimized safety combined. However, some high-profile failures were published Continue reading Antibiotic Inhalers Galore (Part 1): More Combinations and Permutations than a Rubik’s Cube