1. All workers at Brentwood are being tested and prescribed a precautionary dose of Cipro, the powerful anti-anthrax antibiotic. 2. Also, the anthrax problem is focusing attention on powerful antibiotics and their high-profit markets. 3. And they mention powerful antibiotics derived from the skin of African clawed frogs and from microbes in New Jersey mud. 4. All were treated in the hospital with very powerful antibiotics that should have worked against the germs. 5. Half took Cidecin while the other half took either vancomycin, a powerful antibiotic, or oxacillin, a semi-synthetic penicillin. 6. In New Jersey last September, a strain of the bacteria that causes staph infections showed partial resistance to the most powerful antibiotic available. 7. Now, doctors in the Springfield, Mass., area had to switch to more powerful antibiotics, like augmentin and ciprofloxacin. 8. Powerful antibiotics have been derived from the skin of African clawed frogs and from microbes in New Jersey mud. 9. Powerful antibiotics, doctors have learned, can offer a fighting chance of survival even after symptoms have appeared. 10. She worried about taking the powerful antibiotic she had been given in the weeks ahead when she planned to be breast-feeding. |
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