A study published in Frontiers explores the microbial diversity within hospital sink drains across multiple wards over a year ...

This literature review discusses various topical antibiotic treatment options ... to achieve high local drug concentrations at the site of the infection, the low incidence of systemic side effects ...

A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

Switzerland Surgical site infections (SSI) are only one part of all healthcare-associated infections among patients exposed to surgical procedures. Most SSIs are believed to be acquired during a ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a new drug delivery system using ultrasound-activated nanoparticles to ...

A new type of antibiotic for treatment of urinary tract infections in women could also work against gonorrhea ... there was no bacterial persistence at the urogenital body site.” While the study ...

an antibiotic; iohexol, a contrast agent; and a thermosensitive gel that helps deliver the drug directly to the site of infection. To test its effectiveness, Persica enrolled 44 patients from the ...

Overprescribing antibiotics for mild infections, as well as misdiagnosing ... Additionally, bacteria may alter the drug’s target site or develop an alternative metabolic pathway that bypasses ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Analysis of 15.7 million patient records indicates widespread untargeted antibiotic prescribing, often unrelated to infection severity or hospital admission risk ...

• Antibiotics seem to reduce surgical site infections in people undergoing aortic or aortoiliac surgery. • Other interventions assessed appear to make little or no difference in reducing the incidence ...

Exposure to antibiotics prior to age 2 is associated with a 24% increased risk of asthma and 33% increased risk of food ...

A new type of antibiotic for treatment of urinary tract infections in women could also ... there was no bacterial persistence at the urogenital body site.” While the study primarily assessed ...