Prescribing antibiotics to all patients operated on to prevent infections caused by methicillin-sensitive strains of S. aureus, in practice, is impractical.
The use of oseltamivir in influenza reduces the duration and severity of the symptoms of this viral infection and reduces the incidence of pneumonia and other influenza effects.
Bacteria and parasites play a non-specific protective role in inflammatory bowel disease, similar to that described in allergic and autoimmune diseases.
The April issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published a report on the isolation of a methicillin-resistant strain of S. aureus, which has proven to be the world's first strain not only resistant to methicillin, but also vancomycin.
The probiotic Bifidobacterium breve is an effective drug for preventing the development of necrotizing enterocolitis and infections in premature babies and reducing the severity of mucositis during chemotherapy in children with tumors.