CALC: Vancomycin Levels

This is likely to be disastrously wrong, I’m just tinkering here with the code to see how a calculation package might look. Please, do not use any of this information. Beta Vancomycin Level & Half-life (AU) Calculator Intermittent dosing at a fixed infusion rate of 1000 mg/h. Add doses & levels; the calculator estimates k, […]

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Microbiata

Classic histories and their microbes Click here to start quiz[qwiz random=”true” align=”center”] [q unit=”Infectious_Diseases” topic=”Classic_Histories”] Seafood poisoning; fishermen, “coastal slipways”, wounds inflicted by angry sea organisms. [c]IFNob3cgbWUgdG hlIGFuc3dlcg==[Qq] [f]IFZpYnJpbyB2dWxuaWZpY2Fucw==[Qq] [q unit=”Infectious_Diseases” topic=”Classic_Histories”] Abattoir workers, cattle farmers; haemoptysis, pneumonia, heart failure and infective endocarditis. [c]IFNob3cgbWUgdG hlIGFuc3dlcg==[Qq] [f]IENveGllbGxhIGJ1cm5ldGlpIEFLQSAmIzgyMjA7USBmZXZlciYjODIyMTs=[Qq] [q unit=”Infectious_Diseases” topic=”Classic_Histories”] Encephalitis following a flying fox bite […]

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Fungi and Antifungal Therapy

Types of Fungi: Yeasts (single celled) Molds (multicellular, hyphated) Dimorphous (can have yeast and mold forms) – very common for human pathogens Fungal components Nucleus (they’re eukaryotes after all, where the DNA lives) Cytosol (with organelles, where the proteins are made) Cell membrane (regulates transmembrane transport) Cell wall (structural integrity to the cell) Examples of […]

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