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Common antibiotic found useful in accelerating recovery in tuberculosis patients

Globally, an estimated 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year and the disease remains a leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Standard short-course anti-TB treatment still requires a...

22 June, 2021

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New study: Penicillin testing shown to change treatment course

80% of patients were able to switch to more effective therapy A new study from the University of Maryland reveals that testing hospital patients for penicillin allergy leads to optimal antibiotic treatment, since most...

25 August, 2016

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Bacteria or virus? Diagnostic tool could curb antibiotic overuse

As many as half of the antibiotics prescribed to outpatients in the United States are unnecessary. And many of those scripts come from doctors who aren’t sure whether a patient is infected with bacteria — and needs...

22 January, 2016

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Vaccine bonuses

Vaccines have now been proven to help reduce antibiotic resistance. A recent report in Nature speaks of how vaccination against a pneumococcus strain has had an unexpected positive effect for subjects in Africa—besides...

26 August, 2014

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