A spray of antibiotics encapsulated in microscopic antimicrobial silver carbene complexes (SCCs) proved highly successful at just half the dosage of conventionally inhaled antibiotics in tests on mice infected with Pseudomona aeroginosa, a com bacteria that causes a pneumonia-like respiratory illness in people. She is scheduled to present her team's research at the society's annual meeting in San Diego. -- So-called "nanotechnology" may improve the effectiveness of antibiotics by allowing the medicine to be put into an aerosol form, new research suggests. Cannon, of the Laurie University School of Medicine, said in a news release issued by the American Thoracic Society. Viagra Trial for Sickle Cell Lung Problems Halted Forteo Approved for Drug-Related Osteoporosis New Anesthesia May Be Safer for Critically Ill Drug Might Restore Sense of Smell Questions Rise After Hube Jackson's Death Want More News. "During a 72-hour period, all of the infected control mice died, whereas all of the mice that received just two doses of SCC22-loaded nanoparticles spaced 24 hours apart survived," investigator Dr.

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