Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Infection blood test of limited value in reducing antibiotic use

Overall antibiotic use was not curbed by giving physicians the results of biomarker tests in patients with suspected lower respiratory tract infections, according to findings from the Procalcitonin Antibiotic Consensus Trial ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Narrow-spectrum antibiotics best for children with acute RTIs

(HealthDay)—For children with acute respiratory tract infections, broad-spectrum antibiotics are not associated with better clinical or patient-centered outcomes compared with narrow-spectrum antibiotics, according to a ...

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