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[Duration of antibiotic therapy in bacterial meningitis].
The duration of antibiotic therapy in bacterial meningitis is a controversial issue. Antibiotic regimens have changed over time along with the criteria used to determine the ideal antibiotic therapy duration. The authors aim to make an historical overview on this matter and simultaneously add the evidence of recent studies, pointing out some issues in results interpretation, namely, their desig...
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u tion in effi cacy decreases cost, side eff ects, antibiotic related diarrhoea, and bacterial resistance. Havey and colleagues [1] reported the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis of antibiotic duration in bacteraemia and deduced short course therapy (<7 days) might be as eff ective as longer treatments. It is surprising given the obvious benefi ts and the frequency with which bac...
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has traditionally been treated with a 14–21day course of antibiotics. However, prolonged antibiotic therapy is associated with the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains, as well as higher toxicity and costs. In a large, randomised, controlled trial in patients with microbiologically confirmed VAP who received appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy, an ...
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General principles of dosage and duration of treatment with antibiotics in patients with cystic fibrosis are discussed. The antibiotic treatment policy of the Stockholm Center for Cystic Fibrosis is presented. This treatment policy is mainly based on antibiotic treatment of very mild symptoms with high-dosage, short-term (less than 2 weeks) courses using combined therapy. So far no problems wit...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Hospital Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2474-7017
DOI: 10.24150/ajhm/2018.026