Antimicrobial resistance caused by "superbugs" is a major public health issue of global concern. Drug-resistant infections kill around 700,000 people worldwide each year. The figure could increase up to 10 million by 2050, ...
Apr 23, 2018
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Fewer than 60% of young women diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the emergency department fill prescriptions for antimicrobial therapy to treat these conditions, according to a research letter published ...
May 28, 2019
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(HealthDay)—The overall burden of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is substantially higher than that of oral therapy for caregivers of children on prolonged antimicrobial therapy after hospital discharge, ...
Apr 17, 2019
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common genetic disorders in the world. The disease infects nearly 70,000 people worldwide and approximately one in 30 Americans is a carrier. CF is caused by mutations in the human ...
May 22, 2023
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Frank M. Brunkhorst, M.D., of Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and colleagues conducted a study to compare the effect of the antibiotics moxifloxacin and meropenem with the effect of meropenem monotherapy on ...
May 21, 2012
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Just as bacteria can develop antibiotic resistance, viruses can also evade drug treatments. Developing therapies against these microbes is difficult because viruses often mutate or hide themselves within cells. But by mimicking ...
Aug 2, 2023
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(HealthDay)—The 2011 clinical practice guideline (CPG) on urinary tract infection (UTI) in young children has been reaffirmed, according to a report published online Nov. 28 in Pediatrics.
Nov 29, 2016
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Before patients receive intravenous (IV) antimicrobial infusion therapy outside of the hospital—whether at home, a doctor's office or a skilled nursing facility—an infectious diseases (ID) specialist should review the ...
Nov 13, 2018
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Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, co-ordinated through the editorial base in LSTM, conducted an independent review of the effects of treating cholera with antimicrobial drugs, published in The Cochrane ...
Jun 19, 2014
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