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Helicobacter
August 2013
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
Introduction: In Northern Sardinia, one-week triple standard therapies containing a proton-pump inhibitor and two antibiotics for H. pylori infection have an average cure rate of 57% largely due to a high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance. The efficacy of miocamycin-containing treatment for 10 days was evaluated.
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April 2011
Department of Drug Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari 07100, Italy.
Intranasal delivery is an alternative method to target therapeutics to the central nervous system. In the present study, chitosan glutamate (CG)-based mucoadhesive microspheres containing rokitamycin (RK) were prepared by spray-drying and in vitro characterization. Moreover, the influence of CG on RK absorption in bloodstream and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was evaluated after nasal administration to rats.
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December 2009
Department of Drug Sciences, University of Sassari, via Muroni 23/A, 07100 Sassari, Italy.
Acanthamoeba spp. are the causative agents of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) and amoebic keratitis. Recent studies performed by Rassu et al.
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November 2008
Department of Microbiology and Department of Molecular Science & Technology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 443-721, Republic of Korea.
Inhalation of freshwater containing the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri leads to a potentially fatal infection known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAME). Amphotericin B is the only agent with clinical efficacy in the treatment of PAME in humans, however this drug is often associated with adverse effects on the kidney and other organs. In an attempt to select other useful therapeutic agents for treating PAME, the amoebicidal activities of antibacterial agents including clarithromycin, erythromycin, hygromycin B, neomycin, rokitamycin, roxithromycin and zeocin were examined.
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