The intramuscular injection of 1,200,000 units of benzathine penicillin in 40 children convalescent from rheumatic fever was followed by systemic reactions evidenced by fever (12.5 per cent ...

Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp 2000, Belgium ...

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 and has been used to treat various infections since the 1940s. Amoxicillin is a semi-synthetic penicillin that became available in 1972. Amoxicillin and penicillin ...

TETRACYCLINE is a new broad-spectrum antibiotic derived from the catalytic dehydrogenation of chlortetracycline. 1,2 Chemically, it is similar to its analogues chlortetracycline and ...

The drugs administered to 17 patients included chloroquine, novalgin, paraldehyde, procaine penicillin ... In fact, gluteal IM injection that led to sciatic nerve injury most often presented ...

South Africa faces a significant public health challenge with a reported 1 739 congenital syphilis cases in 2023, far exceeding the global target. This article explores the implications, causes, and ...

Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO Scarlet fever, or scarlatina, is a bacterial infection that causes a distinctive ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis finds that the global prevalence of reported penicillin allergy (PenA) is nearly 10%, though much of the data come from high-income countries (HICs), researchers ...

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008;27(6):551-552. Eczema, also known as atopic dermatitis, is a chronic skin condition which affects 15-20% of the population in developed countries including the United ...

“The best option to treat manifestations of congenital syphilis in both early and late stages is intravenous benzyl penicillin for 10 days or intramuscular procaine penicillin,” Singh sai ...