"It's the body overproducing the cellular mucosal lining in your body, and it's also like being burned from the inside out." ...

"I had been pretty healthy," Nicole said. "So, to find out that I got this, I thought, well I'm so healthy, I don't know, ...

On the skin, millions of microbial colonists quietly coexist with their host as microscopic allies that help maintain health ...

Salivary Gland Infection: Treatment Hydration and intravenous antibiotics may be necessary to keep a salivary gland infection from spreading to the deep tissues of the head and neck or to the ...

Cite this: Topical Antibiotic Treatment for Uncomplicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections: Review of the Literature - Medscape - Oct 01, 2009.

C reactive protein (CRP), a marker for the presence of an inflammatory process, is the most extensively studied marker for distinguishing bacterial from non-bacterial infections in febrile patients. A ...

Objectives To investigate if use of antibiotics was associated with bacterial complications following upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). Design Ecological time-trend analysis and a ...

They concluded that antibiotic therapy did not alter the outcome of the skin and soft tissue abscesses 1 week after incision and drainage, because 96% of subjects in each group improved.

Here, the authors present a patient with a past medical history of cirrhosis and an incompletely treated renal abscess, who later developed peritonitis that failed to improve despite adequate ...