Page 3 - Bacterial Infections
Excessive antibiotics use in Covid-19 cases adds 'fuel to fire' in India
Doctors battling to save lives amid a dearth of effective treatments are turning to the medicines they have on hand.
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Colour coding of fungal infections could be misleading: AIIMS chief
AIIMS director Randeep Guleria on Monday said it is better to identify mucormycosis by its name rather than by the colour as labelling the same fungus with names of different colors can create confusion. Addressing a press conference by the Union health ministry, he clarified that no definite link of mucormycosis has been seen with oxygen therapy. Many patients taking treatment at home, who were not on oxygen therapy, have also been found to get infected with mucormycosis. So there is no definite link between oxygen therapy and catching the infection, he said. Guleria underlined that it is better not to use the term black fungus' while talking about mucormycosis, as it leads to a lot of avoidable confusion. "Labelling the same fungus with names of different colors can create confusion. Mucormycosis is not a communicable disease, unlike COVID-19. About 90-95 per cent of patients getting infected with mucormycosis are found to have been either diabetic and/or taking steroids. This ..
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Know your infection: How antibiotic remedy can have adverse health effects
Many severe infections are a result of mixed infections, with bacteria and viruses
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Take a 15-minute test to identify drug-resistant bacterial infections
Test costs less than one dollar and can be carried out using equipment already owned by hospitals
