Clinical outcomes among adult inpatients were no worse when broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy was delayed vs started early, challenging the belief that overly broad-spectrum empiric antibiotic therapy ...

For a patient with septic shock and a serious bacterial infection, rapid antibiotic treatment can be lifesaving. But once the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Computer prompts indicating patients have low risk for antimicrobial-resistant infections significantly reduced ...

Many physicians prescribe antibiotics unnecessarily, most notably for acute respiratory tract infections, but also for conditions such as otitis media or sinusitis, in which antibiotic benefit is ...

Most antibiotics are double-edged swords. Besides killing the pathogen they are prescribed for, they also decimate beneficial bacteria and change the composition of the gut microbiome. As a result, ...

The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance has led researchers to search for new compounds everywhere. This week in mBio, a multinational team of researchers in Europe report the discovery of a ...

For pediatric patients with uncomplicated appendicitis, what is the best choice of antibiotic therapy for preventing surgical-site infection and lowering the frequency of hospital revisits? Overall, ...

Antibiotic resistance is an important issue and a priority for UK health policy. It's possibly the next ticking time bomb in the healthcare system. In our analysis, the financial burden of the tax is ...

A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open has tied cefepime, a broad-spectrum antibiotic ...

A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance by Shelly Leachman, University of California - Santa Barbara Editors' notes Add as preferred source ...

In a study published in the Journal of Oral Microbiology, ADA Forsyth scientists found that FP 100 (Hygromycin A), a first-in-class, small molecule, narrow-spectrum antibiotic, successfully eradicates ...

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