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In addition, TLR5 has recently been shown to signal in response to bacterial flagellin from both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria in a MyD88-dependent manner [ 55], and TLR5 is constitutively expressed on primary intestinal epithelium [ 52].
In the 1960s the drug, administered mostly via the intramuscular route, was found to be of use in the treatment of infections with Gram-negative bacteria resistant to other antibiotics.
Pending a randomized controlled trial, the use of intravenous colistin should be considered in severe infections with Gram-negative bacilli when it remains the only antibiotic to which the causative pathogen is sensitive in vitro .
Two of the 34 patients (6%) with gram-negative blood stream infection died compared with 14 of 54 patients (26%) with gram-positive blood stream infection ( P = 0.0366).
Studies in South America detail the pain and oedema at the bite site and manifestations of autonomic nervous system stimulation (vomiting, diarrhoea, sweating, hypersalivation, bradycardia) that may be attributed to serine protease in Lachesis muta venom which causes hypotension by releasing kinins from plasma kininogen [ 8 ] . There are also cases of bleeding distant from the bite site such as gingival haemorrhage, epistaxis, haemoptysis, haematuria, uterine bleeding, soft tissue haematomas and very infrequently intrathoracic or intrabdominal bleeding [ 35 ] . Complications in the bitten limb can include secondary infections by Gram-negative organisms and acute renal failure among others [ 8 ] . There is a bothrojacarin-like 27 kDa protein in Bothrops species venom [ 36 ] . Bothrojacarin forms a non-covalent complex with thrombin, blocking its ability to induce platelet aggregation and fibrinogen clotting [ 8 36 ] . Haemostatic effects in Lachesis muta venom are attributable to an alpha-fibrin(ogen)ase and haemorrhagic metalloproteinases (LHF-1 and LHF-II) which have alpha-fibrin(ogen)ase activity [ 8 ] .
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