Since 2014 national antimicrobial prescribing guidelines in England have recommended the use of nitrofurantoin over trimethoprim as the first-line treatment for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in ...

India is among the countries hardest hit by "antimicrobial resistance". In 2019 alone, antibiotic-resistant infections caused around 300,000 deaths. They alone are responsible for the deaths of nearly ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Boston, USA First, we applaud the authors on their methodologically ...

Sian tries to ease her discomfort at home without antibiotics Sian, 71, has suffered with reoccurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) since she was 18. "I feel ill with the infections, they’re ...

There were an estimated 66,730 serious antibiotic resistant infections ... a chronic urinary tract infection (UTI). No form of antibiotics has successfully treated it. It has derailed my life ...

The increasing incidence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-KP) fundamentally alters the management of patients at risk to be colonized or infected by such microorganisms.

The patient pathway is formulated for adult patients within secondary care with a clinical suspicion of UTI (see figure 1). The impact of different durations in appropriate or inappropriate treatment ...

Our experience confirms and extends the findings of a previous case series on the use of daptomycin for the treatment of VRE UTIs. The previous study [12] of 5 hospitalized patients with ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a common type of bladder infection that often require antibiotic treatment. That said, mild or occasional UTIs can go away on their own. You may wish to try ...

While these multidrug-resistant UTIs have long been a problem in hospitals ... to multiple classes of antibiotics and makes common infections like UTIs difficult to treat. The authors of the study say ...