Tag: Antibiotics

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

Risk for early-onset sepsis low among infants of all gestational ages born with low-risk delivery characteristics

No evidence of temporal association seen between invasive dental procedure and late prosthetic joint infection

Presence of an appendicolith increases risk for undergoing appendectomy after starting antibiotic therapy for acute appendicitis

Fosfomycin not noninferior to ceftriaxone or meropenem for bacteremic urinary tract infection due to multidrug-resistant E. coli in adults

Decrease in antibiotic prescriptions in pediatric primary care driven by reduced volume of visits for respiratory tract infections