Use of a broad-spectrum antibiotic when a narrow-spectrum agent would suffice Excessive duration of therapy Intravenous therapy when oral therapy would be equally effective Combination therapy when a single antibiotic would suffice Failure to change antibiotics when the antibiograms become available ...
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Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common type of skin cancer in the U.S. BCC grows in the upper basal cells of your skin but rarely spreads and is curable. You may be prone to BCCs if you spend lots of time in the sun or use a tanning bed frequently. Growths commonly occur...
Thus, rule-out sepsis is not a diagnosis, and culture-negative sepsis is most likely often a wrong diagnosis. In the recent literature, the EOS-calculator has been the most discussed approach to reduce antibiotic therapy for suspected EOS in late preterm and term infants48. The EOS-calculator...
New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) is the most prevalent type of metallo-β-lactamase and hydrolyzes almost all clinically used β-lactam antibiotics. Here we show that the antimicrobial peptide thanatin disrupts the outer membrane of NDM-1-produci
The most common bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), a serious lung disease, is Streptococcus pneumoniae. Other infection types can include ear and sinus infections, meningitis, bone and bloodstream infections. Drug-resistance to Streptococcus pneumoniae depends upon the area in ...
Most of the antibiotic classes we use as medicines today were discovered and introduced to the market. Each class typically contains several antibiotics that have been discovered over time or are modified versions of previous types.There are for example numerous β-lactams (pronounced beta-lacta...
1. Respiratory tract infection (40.9%), mechanical injury/wound (27%) and acute diarrhea (19.1%) were the three most common disease conditions to which antibiotics had been taken. More than half of the respondents (53%) got antibiotics from community drug retail outlets without a prescription ...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), universally recognized as one of the most serious public health challenges of the twenty-first century [1], has grown into a global pandemic that poses a threat to human health and well-being, including health care, food production, and life expectancy [2]. Acc...
Ultimately, if an individual’s microbiome is distorted beyond correction after antibiotic cessation and treatment of an underlying condition, microbiome repair can be considered [86, 102,103,104,105,106]. The most common diseases for which this has been trialed are Clostridioides difficile ...