The intravenous antibiotic Emblaveo, a combination of aztreonam and avibactam approved in Europe last year, was developed in ...

Drinking alcohol while taking amoxicillin can cause side effects. Although amoxicillin doesn’t directly react with alcohol, amoxicillin can sometimes cause gastrointestinal side effects, such as ...

Longer antibiotic courses showed no increased benefits or harms than shorter antibiotic courses in older adults, found a ...

The researchers theorise the protective effects of these drugs could be because they reduce inflammation, control infections and improve overall brain health.

Penicillin is the most commonly recommended therapy for group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis. Although group A streptococcus has not developed resistance, antibiotic therapy fails to eradicate ...

This study of the comparative efficacy of tetracycline and penicillin in the treatment ... Treatment was begun with those antibiotics, but the subsequent course was characterized by progressive ...

Bacterial insertion sequences (IS) are small DNA segments (<2.5 kb) with a simple genetic organization. Most IS elements exhibit short terminal inverted repeat sequences (IR) and encode a transposase, ...

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 and has been used to treat various infections since the 1940s. Amoxicillin is a semi-synthetic penicillin that became available in 1972. Amoxicillin and penicillin ...

The tests aim to reduce the use of antibiotics and therefore antimicrobial resistance, which is rising globally. A pilot trial will begin later this year, applying the tests in rural settings with ...

Results revealed that short-course antibiotics -- carefully tailored to individual patients' recovery -- are just as effective as traditional longer treatments in preventing death and recurrence ...