Tag: Antibiotics

Better control, fewer exacerbations seen with addition of oral azithromycin to standard therapy in children with poorly controlled asthma

Findings regardless of antibiotic class and with a dose-response relationship

Relative reductions of 33 percent in rate of blood cultures, 13 percent in rate of broad-spectrum antibiotic use seen postimplementation

Possible negative association of history of antibiotic prescriptions with vaccine-induced immunity seen in young children

Azithromycin therapy during RSV bronchiolitis does not reduce the risk for post-RSV recurrent wheeze over two to four years

Clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of simulated treatment strategies for injection drug use-linked IE compared in modeling study

Major shift seen in composition and in antimicrobial resistance gene profile directly after treatment, which normalized over 12 months

Incidence of antibiotic-treated UTI during 12-month treatment period noninferior for methenamine hippurate versus prophylactic antibiotics

Strongly consider oral prophylaxis for patients at elevated risk for cardiovascular compromise following IM injection of benzathine penicillin G

Lower respiratory infections accounted for >1.5 million deaths associated with resistance, making it the most burdensome syndrome