Since the 1960's, a program of streptococcal disease surveillance and penicillin prophylaxis has contributed to the control of streptococcal infection and its sequelae among recruits at Navy...
Why the Most Dreaded Injection is Called the 'Peanut Butter' Shot
Since bicillin kills off a variety of bacteria strands in one shot, it's given to nearly every recruit. Now, once the medical staff injects the recruits in their butt cheek, the pain hits them like...
Recruit Streptococcal Infection Prevention Program - Navy Medicine
BUMEDINST 6220.8B provides policy and guidelines for streptococcal disease surveillance and the use of antibiotic prophylaxis to control group A streptococcal infections among naval recruits and...
Penicillin Allergy…Maybe Not? The Military Relevance for Penicillin ...
2018年8月21日 · Penicillin’s role in the military starts during basic training with an initial intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin for group A Streptococcus prophylaxis. 3, 4 At present there are eight basic training sites for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, which train approximately 165,500 new recruits each year, Table I. However ...
Penicillin prophylaxis for streptococcal infections in United States ...
Benzathine penicillin G has been used in United States Navy and Marine Corps recruit camps since 1953 to reduce the incidence of streptococcal disease and its nonsuppurative complications-acute rheumatic fever and acute glomerulonephritis. This paper reviews the history of prophylactic penicillin us …
2019年7月30日 · – All incoming recruits receive benzathine penicillin G (Bicillin-LAR, aka BPG) or alternate non-penicillin antibiotic year round – Non-pen antibiotics should be administered under Directly...
The role of benzathine penicillin G in predicting and preventing …
2018年7月5日 · Benzathine penicillin G (BPG, trade name ‘Bicillin’) is a high-dose antibiotic injection administered to military recruits upon accession to BCT. Prophylactic use of BPG is intended to reduce the impact of imported bacterial infections on troop health upon entry to BCT in hopes of preventing further spread [ 12 ].
Penicillin prophylaxis for streptococcal infections in United States ...
The history of prophylactic penicillin use among U.S. Navy and Marine Corps recruits and the rationale for continuing this practice today are reviewed. Benzathine penicillin G has been used in United States Navy and Marine Corps recruit camps since 1953 to reduce the incidence of streptococcal disease and its nonsuppurative complications-acute ...
Protection of a Military Population From Rheumatic Fever
Types of prophylaxis programs employing benzathine penicillin G for the control of streptococcal disease among Navy recruits ranged from mass injections of penicillin in an attempt to interrupt epidemics to the year-around administration of a single injection to new recruits coming to Great Lakes, Ill, in an effort to prevent epidemics.
Chemoprophylaxis against group A streptococcus during military training
2019年1月1日 · Landmark studies conducted in the 1950s at Naval Training Centers Bainbridge, Maryland, and Great Lakes, Illinois, provided three valuable insights: (1) intramuscular benzathine penicillin is more effective than oral penicillin; (2) 1.2 million units offers a greater duration of protection than 600 thousand units; and (3) even with the higher ...
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