Availability of antibiotics as over-the-counter drugs in pharmacies: a threat to public health in Vietnam Summary A survey on the use of antibiotics purchased through retail pharmacies was conducted in the Badinh district of Hanoi, Vietnam. The survey found tha... DV Duong,CW Binns,TV Le ...
"Many were alsobroad-spectrum antibioticslike amoxicillin, azithromycin and others which increase the risk of the development of difficult-to-treat infections like the the deadly methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. "Considering most countries have laws prohibiting over-the-counter sales of antibioti...
This product class has seen an initial burst in the diversity of distinct types of antibiotics over the first 30 years since the introduction of penicillin, followed by a slower increase in product launches in the last few decades. In some cases, manufacturing facilities have been in use for ...
It is widely assumed that the development of antibiotics had a transformative effect on livestock production by making it possible to keep larger numbers of animals in smaller spaces without them succumbing to disease. Using the health and production of
transduction or conjugation.226–229 It was as early as the 1940s when the problem of resistance development and the problems of self-medication were discussed in public,230 but even today in many countries antibiotics are available over the counter without prescription and are extensively used in...
FDA ’99. Over-the-counter drug products containing colloidal silver ingredients or silver salts. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Final rule. Fed Regist 64 (158): 44653–8. August 1999 ...
Self-medication, an important driver of antibiotic overuse, is common, particularly in developing countries where antibiotics can be bought over the counter in pharmacies or in local market places, but it occurs also in Europe, mainly in southern and eastern countries [26]. Antibiotics are used ...
A Study in Healthy Volunteers to Assess Safety and Blood Levels of AZD9742 after Multiple Doses Over 14 Days (NCT01064388)〈http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01064388〉 (accessed 4 April 2011). Koul, A., Arnoult, E., Lounis, N., Guillemont, J. & Andries, K. The challenge of ...
Self-medication, an important driver of antibiotic overuse, is common, particularly in developing countries where antibiotics can be bought over the counter in pharmacies or in local market places, but it occurs also in Europe, mainly in southern and eastern countries [26]. Antibiotics are used ...
a profound impact on human health by enabling rapid treatment of patients with bacterial infections that previously had often proved fatal.1,2 Over the next 40 years, now seen as the ''golden era'' of antibiotic research, the majority of antibiotic drug classes in use today were discovered. ...