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What antibiotics are used to treat hospital-acquired infections?
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∙ 13y ago
penicillin, cephalosporins, tetracyclines, and erythromycin
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Antibiotics are used to treat what?
Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. Antibiotics cannot treat viral infections such as HPV, herpes and HIV.
What will antibiotics treat?
Antibiotics are used as an aid to the body's immune system for fighting harmful bacteria.
Can you use amoxicillin for bacterial infections?
Yes, they can cure bacterial infections but they cannot cure viruses. :)
What antibiotics are used primarily to treat tooth infections?
Clindamycin, amoxicillin and Biaxin.
What does doxycycline hyc treat?
Its used to treat a number of infections such as acene
What type of medicine is generally used to treat bacterial infections?
Most of the drugs that treat bacterial disease are called antibiotics.
What is Sulsameth-Trimeth?
combination of two antibiotics used to treat a variety of bacterial infections
Antibiotics are used to treat viruses.?
NO! Antibiotics have no effect at all on viruses and should never be used to treat viral infections and doing so accelerates the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
What type of illness can be treated with antibiotics?
Only bacterial infections they are not effective for viral infections.
What class of antibiotic is vancomycin?
Vancomycin is a tricyclic antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections. It is used for more serious infections that are resistant to other antibiotics.
Can antibiotics lead to septic shock if used to treat gram-negative bacterial infections?
Yes
Can antibiotics cause uti?
Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are caused by bacteria. Antibiotics kill bacterial infections, not cause them. Antibiotics are used to treat UTIs, and in no way can cause them, since they kill bacteria that cause the infection to begin with.
