Antibiotic-resistant anaerobic bacteria have become increasingly recognized as a confounding factor in the selection of therapeutic agents. The use of potent, broad-spectrum antibiotics as empirical therapy, along with appropriate adjunctive measures, has, in some ways, masked the magnitude of the antibiotic resistance problem that parallels that observed for nonanaerobic pathogens. The use of ...

Dentistry is a vast domain devoted to managing dental infections as well bolstering and rehabilitating the dentition lost bacterial invasion. Antibiotics are an essential part of dentistry its relative specialties, prescribing antibiotics privilege that should not be abused. Antibiotic prescriptions in relatively small but nonetheless significant. With emergence antibiotic-resistant species, th...

OBJECTIVES Many European countries have engaged in awareness campaigns to decrease outpatient antibiotic use and several measures have been proposed, e.g. the number of defined daily doses (DDDs) or packages per 1000 inhabitants per day, producing conflicting findings. Therefore, we set out to explore what measure is most appropriate. METHODS Outpatient data on each dispensed and reimbursed m...

Background: Antimicrobial resistance among microorganisms is a global concern. We conducted a Drug Use Evaluation study to evaluate the appropriateness of use of restricted antibiotics in the context of the existing Antibiotic Order Form using sequential prospective audits of prescriptions. Methods: A prospective observational Drug Utilization Review (DUR) study was conducted in patients receiv...

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is affected by the type of antibiotics used and how they are handled. The types of antibiotics used by 110 pig farms in the Ashanti region and the handling practices of the farmers during disease management were assessed. Injectable tetracycline, sulphadimidine, benzylpenicillin, and dihydrostreptomycin containing antibiotics were overly used by the farmers esp...

Delay in initiating appropriate antibiotic treatment in patients with severe nosocomial pneumonia (SNP) is associated with a more unfavorable prognosis,1-6 longer hospital stays, and consequently higher healthcare costs. Moreover, in the context of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), changing inappropriate empiric antibiotic regimens after the causative pathogen has been isolated does not si...

Delay in initiating appropriate antibiotic treatment in patients with severe nosocomial pneumonia (SNP) is associated with a more unfavorable prognosis,1-6 longer hospital stays, and consequently higher healthcare costs. Moreover, in the context of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), changing inappropriate empiric antibiotic regimens after the causative pathogen has been isolated does not si...

The appropriate prescribing of antibiotics is a challenge in primary care12. We performed an interventional trial to determine if providing an information leaflet on antibiotics with a delayed antibiotic prescription influenced the patient's decision to use the antibiotic for a respiratory tract infection (RTI). The control group (n = 69) where given a delayed prescription and the intervention ...