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  2. Probenecid - Wikipedia

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    Probenecid, also sold under the brand name Probalan, is a medication that increases uric acid excretion in the urine. It is primarily used in treating gout and hyperuricemia . Probenecid was developed as an alternative to caronamide [ 1 ] to competitively inhibit renal excretion of some drugs, thereby increasing their plasma concentration and ...

  3. Dental antibiotic prophylaxis - Wikipedia

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    Unsatisfactory evidence to conclude whether antibiotic prophylaxis is useful in patients at risk of IE before dental treatment. [12] It is now established that ‘Antibiotic prophylaxis against IE is not recommended routinely for people undergoing dental procedures’ according to NICE 2016, recommendation 1.1.3.

  4. Sulopenem/probenecid - Wikipedia

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    Sulopenem/probenecid, sold under the brand name Orlynvah, is a fixed-dose combination medication used for the treatment of urinary tract infections. [1] It contains sulopenem , a penem antibacterial , as the prodrug sulopenem etzadroxil; and probenecid , a renal tubular transport inhibitor .

  5. Antibiotic prophylaxis - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, some European countries banned the use of antibiotics because of research they found that linked antibiotic use in livestock and drug resistant bacteria in humans. [11] The European Union regulated in 2006 against antibiotics for growth promotion purposes. [12] It was estimated in 2014 that over 80% of the world's antibiotic use was on ...

  6. Empiric therapy - Wikipedia

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    This first treatment, based on statistical information about former patients, and aimed at a large group of potentially involved microbes, is called empiric treatment. [3] The advantage of indicating antibiotics empirically exists where a causative pathogen is likely albeit unknown and where diagnostic tests will not be influential to treatment ...

  7. Helicobacter pylori eradication protocols - Wikipedia

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    This treatment effectively cured his gastritis and eliminated the H. pylori infection. This is not the current eradication protocol. [citation needed] One of the first "modern" eradication protocols was a one-week triple therapy, which the Sydney gastroenterologist Thomas Borody formulated in 1987. [14]

  8. Sulopenem - Wikipedia

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    Sulopenem (CP-70,429) is a thiopenem antibiotic derivative from the penem family, which unlike most related drugs is orally active. It was developed in Japan in the 1990s, and has been approved to treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections in combination with probenecid (Brand name: Orlynvah).

  9. Route of administration - Wikipedia

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    Routes of administration are usually classified by application location (or exposition). The route or course the active substance takes from application location to the location where it has its target effect is usually rather a matter of pharmacokinetics (concerning the processes of uptake, distribution, and elimination of drugs).