Infection Control Today - Antibiotics

Newer, Shorter-Course Antibiotic Shows Similar Effectiveness for Treating Skin Infection

Treatment with a newer antibiotic, tedizolid phosphate, once daily for 6 days was statistically noninferior (no worse than) in efficacy to the antibiotic linezolid twice daily for 10 days for both early (at day 2 to 3) and sustained (at day 11) clinical responses in ...More

February 12, 2013

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Tracking the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

With the discovery of antibiotics, medicine acquired power on a scale never before possible to protect health, save lives, and reduce suffering caused by certain bacteria. But the power of antibiotics is now under siege because some virulent infections no longer respond to ...More

February 1, 2013

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Parental Misconceptions About Antibiotics Linked to Poor Health Literacy Levels in Latino Population

In the first study of its kind, researchers at the Columbia University School of Nursing have established that poor health literacy among Latino parents is associated with a poor understanding of the proper use antibiotics, particularly for upper respiratory infections ...More

February 1, 2013

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New Tool for Mining Bacterial Genome for Novel Drug Development

Vanderbilt biochemists have discovered that the process bacteria undergo when they become drug resistant can act as a powerful tool for drug discovery. Their findings – reported this week in the Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – ...More

January 29, 2013

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Penicillin, Not the Pill, May Have Launched the Sexual Revolution

The rise in risky, non-traditional sexual relations that marked the swinging ‘60s actually began as much as a decade earlier, during the conformist ‘50s, suggests an analysis recently published by the Archives of Sexual Behavior. ...More

January 28, 2013

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Patient Expectations of Acute Bronchitis Not Consistent With the Best Evidence

New research from the University of Georgia exposes a large discrepancy in the length of time patients expect an acute cough illness, also called acute bronchitis, to last and the reality of the illness. This mismatch may be a factor in the over-prescription of antibiotics. ...More

January 15, 2013

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Experts Say Access to Antibiotics is a Safety and Equity Challenge for the Next Decade

Writing in a commentary in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (2013), Jean Carlet, of the Hôpital St. Joseph in Paris, and Didier Pittet, of the University of Geneva Hospitals in Geneva, emphasize that bacterial resistance to antibiotics is increasing worldwide ...More

January 14, 2013

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Antibiotics Based on a New Principle May Defeat MRSA

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have presented a new principle for fighting bacterial infections in the form of a new type of antibiotic mechanism. The new antibiotic mechanism is based on selectively blocking the thioredoxin system in the cells, which is crucial to the ...More

December 18, 2012

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No Evidence to Recommend Antibiotics for Joint Replacement Patients Who Undergo Dental Procedures

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the American Dental Association (ADA) found that there is insufficient evidence to recommend the routine use of antibiotics for patients with orthopaedic implants to prevent infections prior to having dental procedures ...More

December 18, 2012

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Folklore Leads to Potential New Antibiotics

Following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour — by putting a frog in the bucket of milk — scientists have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances in the skin of the Russian Brown frog. The study appears in the American Chemical Society's ...More

December 13, 2012

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