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Bacterial diseases: Introduction

Bacteria are single-celled creatures with tiny flagella. Bacteria are alive. They are very small organisms, often only a single cell. Bacteria need to get energy, and may emit toxins or waste products. By comparison, viruses are much smaller, and are not exactly "alive" in the normal sense.

Symptoms of Bacterial diseases

• Tachypnoea
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Disease Topics Related To Bacterial diseases

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Medical Textbooks Online about Bacterial diseases

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Misdiagnosis and Bacterial diseases

Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria, but can also kill the "good" bacteria in the gut. This leads to "digestive imbalance" where there are too few remaining "good" bacteria in the digestive system. The treatment is typically to use "probiotics", such as by eating yoghurt cultures containing more of the good bacteria. See digestive imbalance and probiotics....read more »

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Causes of Bacterial diseases

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News Archives for Bacterial diseases

Medical news articles related to Bacterial diseases include:

• Long-Term Antibiotic Use Affects 'Good' Gut Bacteria
• Intestinal Bacteria Trigger Immune Response
• Stomach Bacteria Might Guard Against Certain Throat Cancer
• Eradicating Gut Bacteria Improves Stomach Cancer Outcomes
• Gut Bacteria Fights Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Naturally Occurring Bacteria Cut Kidney Stone Recurrence
• Bacteria May Be Connected to Colic
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Evidence Based Medicine Research for Bacterial diseases

Medical research articles related to Bacterial diseases include:

• Epidemiology of invasive group B streptococcal disease in the United States, 1999-2005.
• What are the signs and symptoms of anthrax? How is it diagnosed? What is the mortality rate?
• 1) General recommendations on immunization: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). 2) Update: recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding administration of combination MMRV va
• Rapid diagnostic tests compared with malaria microscopy for guiding outpatient treatment of febrile illness in Tanzania: randomised trial.
• CD4-guided structured antiretroviral treatment interruption strategy in HIV-infected adults in west Africa (Trivacan ANRS 1269 trial): a randomised trial.
• Statement on travellers and sexually transmitted infections
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Clinical Trials for Bacterial diseases

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Bacterial diseases include:

• Antibiotic Treatment for Patients With Infections of Short Term In-Dwelling Vascular Catheters Due to a Specific Bacteria (Gram Positive Bacteria) - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Antibiotic,Vancomycin,Oxacillin,Dicloxacillin
• Daptomycin for the Treatment of Infections Due to Gram-Positive Bacteria - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - daptomycin
• Study Evaluating Piperacillin-Tazobactam on Certain Bacteria in Hematology and Oncology Units - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - piperacillin-tazobactam
• Study of the Safety and Effectiveness of Rabeprazole in Treatment of Helicobacter Pylori Infection in Adults. - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - rabeprazole sodium
• Study Evaluating Tigecycline in Selected Serious Infections Caused by Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) or Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Tigecycline
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Statistics for Bacterial diseases

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Bacterial diseases: Broader Related Topics

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Types of Bacterial diseases

Types of Bacterial diseases

• Lyme disease
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Article Excerpts about Bacterial diseases

Microbes belonging to the bacteria group are made up of only one cell. Under a microscope, bacteria look like balls, rods, or spirals. Bacteria are so small that a line of 1,000 could fit across the eraser of a pencil. Life in any form on Earth could not exist without these tiny cells. (Source: excerpt from Microbes in Sickness and in Health - Publications, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: NIAID)

Definitions of Bacterial diseases:

Infections and associated diseases by bacteria, general or unspecified. - (Source - Diseases Database)

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