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Comparing narrow-spectrum antimicrobial therapy to standard of care in patients with community-acquired pneumonia
Antimicrobial Resistance: 8 Large NIH Trials Seek To Preserve The Usefulness Of Antibiotics The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I really would much rather Russell had a wonderful surprise for us all and had worked his way to it via grim, narrow-spectrum storytelling.
And so it begins...A Torchwood CoE Press Review rabid1st 2009
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Comparing narrow-spectrum antimicrobial therapy to standard of care in patients with community-acquired pneumonia
Antimicrobial Resistance: 8 Large NIH Trials Seek To Preserve The Usefulness Of Antibiotics NIH/NIAID 2010
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Light-emitting diodes LEDs represent various types of semiconductor devices that produce incoherent narrow-spectrum light fascicles when powered with a steady-state voltage electrical source, producing the effect known as electroluminescence.
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Ask about "narrow-spectrum" antibiotics that target the likely bacteria.
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Ask about "narrow-spectrum" antibiotics that target the likely bacteria.
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Once lab tests come back with a specific diagnosis, such as a urinary-tract infection that can be treated with a narrow-spectrum drug like amoxicillin, the best course may be to substitute the new drug, she says.
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The flexible arrays could also be used as photo-therapeutic bandages to treat certain diseases – such as psoriasis – that can be driven into remission by narrow-spectrum ultraviolet light, they said.
Soon, an Aluminium Foil Lamp That Outshines Incandescent Lights | Impact Lab 2007
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Do not use tetracycline, ampicillin, or another broad-spectrum antibiotic for an illness that can probably be controlled with penicillin or another narrow-spectrum antibiotic.
Chapter 14 1993
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Broad-spectrum antibiotics attack many more kinds of bacteria than narrow-spectrum antibiotics.
Chapter 14 1993
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