• the Simarouba species can be used as timber, for producing edible oils and to treat dysentery?
• during one of the Caspian expeditions of the Rus, the city of Barda in Azerbaijan was saved from complete destruction only by an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus?
• 173 of the 198 Kwaio arrested during the Malaita massacre were hospitalized for dysentery while awaiting trial in Tulagi, the Solomon Islands?

Facts on topics related to Dysentery

Diarrhea

• tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome is a rare disease presenting as intractable diarrhea, facial abnormalities and woolly, brittle hair in infants with growth retardation in the womb?
• Greek physician Hippocrates (pictured) used wine as a medicine and health supplement prescribing it for a variety of ailments such as diarrhea, lethargy and pain during childbirth?
• a diarrhea epidemic in 2008 sickened 113 people in Kampong Leaeng District in central Cambodia?

Antibiotic

• cefquinome is an antibiotic developed to treat bovine respiratory disease?
• ceftaroline is a novel antibiotic against MRSA and other resistant bacterial strains and is under clinical trial as a treatment for infectious diseases such as community-acquired pneumonia?
• Elizabeth Lee Hazen developed the world's first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin?
• Ernest Duchesne discovered penicillin's antibiotic powers 32 years before Alexander Fleming?
• shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics through their wastewater?
• one bacterial strain of Streptomyces griseus has the capacity to produce up to 34 different secondary metabolites including antibiotics?
• some pulvinones have shown anticoagulant activity in rats, whilst other pulvinone derivatives are patented antibiotics for use in animals?
• the giant leucopax mushroom has bioactive compounds with antioxidative, antibiotic, and anti-cancer properties?
• worldwide resistance to the antibiotic mecillinam is remarkably low, even though it has been widely used as a treatment for urinary tract infections since the 1970s?