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Understanding the truth behind penicillin allergy is crucial—not just for your personal care, but for public health and antibiotic stewardship.

Now, to make a more efficient antibiotic treatment, researchers have modified penicillin, so that it's activated only by green light. In early tests, the approach precisely controlled bacterial ...

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SAN DIEGO — Nearly half of pregnant women who completed a telehealth penicillin allergy consultation did not go on to complete in-person allergy testing, according to a poster presented here ...

During the past decades, epidemiology of pneumococcal resistance has been evolving with the widespread use of antibiotics, clonal spread of resistant strains and the introduction of PCV ...

Eleven children who met the criteria specified received 1,200,000 units of a procaine penicillin G preparation intramuscularly and were studied in the same way.

Syphilis, an STI caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, has re-emerged as a major public health threat in the United States, with rates skyrocketing over the past decade.

A medallion containing some of the original mold involved in the discovery of penicillin is expected to fetch up to $50,000 at auction.

Since procaine hydrochloride and sodium penicillin G combine on a molecule-to-molecule basis, each milligram of procaine penicillin G is equivalent to 0.42 mg. of procaine base.

Penicillin X1, also known as penicillin III, is a hydroxybenzyl derivative of former Molecule of the Week benzylpenicillin2 (penicillin G or II).