An international research team found some beneficial bacteria in people’s guts may not return after broad-spectrum antibiotic exposure, according to a study published in Nature Microbiology. 1.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are used more generally when the organism is unknown, exacerbating AMR. The UK government report, published in 2016, recommended testing for pathogens before prescribing and ...

Antibiotic use among commercially insured Americans fell by nearly 10 percent from 2010 through 2016, according to a report released Thursday by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. To assess ...

Among adults treated for community-acquired pneumonia in the outpatient setting, broad-spectrum antibiotics vs macrolide monotherapy were associated with an increased risk for adverse drug events.

Bacteria have long been a key source of lifesaving antibiotics, but most species cannot be grown in the lab—leaving their therapeutic potential untapped even as multidrug resistance becomes an ...

About half of suspected sepsis cases account for broad-spectrum antibiotic use — but a lot of these cases don’t require the medications at all, according to a study published June 27 in JAMA Network ...

(CNN) — Scientists say they have developed a new type of antibiotic to treat bacteria that is resistant to most current antibiotics and kills a large percentage of people with an invasive infection.

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America published a guideline in 2011 detailing recommended treatment for children with community-acquired pneumonia ...

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are prescribed in one third of pediatric outpatient visits for urinary tract infection, and use of third-generation cephalosporins has doubled in the past decade.

It’s resistant to a class of broad-spectrum antibiotics called carbapenems. Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, also known as CRAB, was at the top of the World Health Organization’s list of ...