11.   Antibiotic drugs like penicillin are used to treat bacterial infections like streptococcus, staphylococcus and E. coli.

12.   At Kaiser Permanente, first-time infections are treated after an office visit and a urine test to confirm the diagnosis.

13.   -- Although HCV infections can be treated, drugs are expensive, difficult to take and help fewer than half of all patients.

14.   A benefit besides reduced risk of pneumonia and meningitis is preventing and treating ear infections, also caused by the same bacterial infection.

15.   A one-time, one-dose antibiotic to treat urinary tract infection has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

16.   After other antibiotics failed to treat the infection, which caused high fever and pain, treatment with Synercid for several weeks cured him, Saymore said.

17.   But antibiotics kill bacteria, not viruses, so they are mostly ineffective in treating viral infection such as upper respiratory infections, colds and flu.

18.   But she said she would offer it only as a last resort, to treat infection with antibiotic-resistant anthrax.

19.   Clembuterol is a bronchodilator used to treat respiratory infections.

20.   Cold medicines, such as decongestants and antihistamines, are not effective in treating ear infections.