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GBS it is also an important pathogen in a diversity of fish species, leading to serious economic losses in many species of fish worldwide. GBS causes severe epidemics in farmed fish, causing sepsis and external and internal hemorrhages. GBS infection has been reported from wild and captive fish and has been involved in epizootics in many countries.
GBS infections in adults include urinary tract infection, skin and soft-tissue infection (skin and skin structure infection) bacteremia, osteomyelitis, meningitis and endocarditis. [6] GBS infection in adults can be serious and related with high mortality. In general penicillin is the antibiotic of choice for treatment of GBS infection.
Group B Strep Support was formed in 1996, after the founders' son had a group B Strep infection. [1] Since then it has established a medical panel [ 2 ] and set up a board of trustees. [ 1 ] The charity has been heavily involved in public consultations on group B Strep prevention, and in 2012 commented on the National Screening Committee's ...
Immunoglobulin therapy is the use of a mixture of antibodies (normal human immunoglobulin) to treat several health conditions. [13] [14] These conditions include primary immunodeficiency, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, Kawasaki disease, certain cases of HIV/AIDS and measles, Guillain–Barré syndrome, and certain other infections when a ...
The Glasgow-Blatchford bleeding score (GBS) is a screening tool to assess the likelihood that a person with an acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) will need to have medical intervention such as a blood transfusion or endoscopic intervention. [1] The tool may be able to identify people who do not need to be admitted to hospital after a ...
A third of California’s adult prisons provide an “inadequate” level of medical care to their inmate patients, according to the most recent inspections from the state’s prison watchdog.
The number of adults eating in a way they consider to be healthy has fallen, according to new data. What’s more, research shows they aren’t enjoying the food either.
DuBose was ruled out with a head injury and taken to a local hospital for evaluation, according to the Dolphins.He is in stable condition. DuBose was taken off the field on a stretcher following a ...