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A small bottle of rượu thuốc Rượu thuốc in Phú Quốc island. A popular type of rượu thuốc is snake wine (rượu rắn) for its placebo ability to cure multiple diseases including far sightedness, hair loss, back pain, digestive problems, fertility problems and even leprosy. [2]
Rifampicin, also known as rifampin, is an ansamycin antibiotic used to treat several types of bacterial infections, including tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium avium complex, leprosy, and Legionnaires' disease. [3]
Floating island La Rota in Posta Fibreno lake, Italy. Natural floating islands are composed of vegetation growing on a buoyant mat of plant roots or other organic detritus. In aquatic regions of Northwestern Europe, several hundred hectares or a couple thousand acres of floating meadows (German Schwingrasen, Dutch trilveen) have been preserved, which are partly used as agricultural land ...
The hope of a fixed-dose combination pill is to increase the likelihood that people will take all of three medications. [5] Also, if people forget to take one or two of their drugs, they might not then develop resistance to the remaining drugs.
Rifampin rapidly kills fast-dividing bacilli strains as well as "persisters" cells, which remain biologically inactive for long periods of time that allow them to evade antibiotic activity. [7] In addition, rifabutin and rifapentine have both been used against tuberculosis acquired in HIV-positive patients.
Isoniazid/rifampicin, also known as isoniazid/rifampin, is a medication used to treat tuberculosis. [1] It is a fixed dose combination of isoniazid and rifampicin (rifampin). [1] It is used together with other antituberculosis medication. [1] It is taken by mouth. [1] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [2]
A category for floating islands, both natural and artificial, including fictional floating islands. Fictional islands that float in the sky, such as floating cities , should not be added here Subcategories
Although phumdi vegetation has existed for centuries, it was not until 1886 that the Manipur Gazetteer recorded that wetlands with floating islands were used by inhabitants for fishing. [9] Before the Ithai barrage was constructed in 1986, 207 khangpoks (huts or sheds) were reported on the phumdis, but after the dam was completed in 1999, the ...