IDSA recommends shorter antibiotic courses for adults with cUTIs who show clinical improvement on effective therapy.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ninety-day risk of all-cause mortality was 11.2% and 9.9% for patients given a shorter or longer antibiotic ...

Multidrug-resistant gram-negative infections (MDRGNIs) are an emerging and deadly threat worldwide. Some of these infections are now resistant to nearly all antibiotics, and very few treatment options ...

Individuals in the short-course antibiotic cohort had 5.2 fewer antibiotic treatment days during hospitalization and fewer antibiotic side-effects. An individualized short-duration antibiotic course ...

Antibiotic resistance among Gram‐negative bacteria represents one of the most pressing challenges in modern medicine. These pathogens have evolved multiple mechanisms to evade the effects of ...

Clinicians should remain vigilant when prescribing antibiotics for gram-negative urinary tract infections due to the evolving spectrum of antimicrobial resistance. Clinicians should consider the ...

Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, especially the "ESKAPE" pathogens, continue to increase in frequency and cause significant morbidity and mortality. New antimicrobial agents are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients given IV and oral antibiotics had similar rates of bacteremia recurrence and reinitiation of therapy.

Risk of all-cause mortality was similar in patients with uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia who switched early to oral antibiotics from IV antibiotics, according to retrospective, cohort study. Of ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2012;10(8):917-934. Figure 1 represents the number of citations found in the PubMed database from 1960 to the middle of 2011 using either the search phrase 'colistin' or ...

Gram-negative meningitis is a form of meningitis. The term gram-negative refers to a way of differentiating bacteria. This type of bacteria is typically resistant to drugs and most available ...