Narrow-spectrum antibiotics are preferable to broad-spectrum antibiotics for treating most children with acute respiratory tract infections, according to a pair of studies published in JAMA. The ...

HealthDay News — For children with acute respiratory tract infections, broad-spectrum antibiotics are not associated with better clinical or patient-centered outcomes compared with narrow-spectrum ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Narrow antibiotics are as effective as broad ones for treating acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in children and come with fewer adverse effects, according to a large ...

Support for Narrow-Spectrum Antibiotics in Pediatric Pneumonia Narrow-spectrum antibiotics, which are recommended as first-line therapy for children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP ...

For pediatric patients with uncomplicated appendicitis, what is the best choice of antibiotic therapy for preventing surgical-site infection and lowering the frequency of hospital revisits? Overall, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Pediatric practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of initial UTI in febrile infants and young ...

“This type of black and white data almost never happens,” said Alpdogan Kantarci, DDS, PhD, a senior scientist at ADA Forsyth who led the study. "The results were so clear. With FP 100, we can ...

New study reveals at a molecular level how fidaxomicin selectively targets C. Diff bacteria while sparing the innocent bacterial bystanders of the gut microbiome. Most antibiotics are double-edged ...

Most antibiotics are double-edged swords. Besides killing the pathogen they are prescribed for, they also decimate beneficial bacteria and change the composition of the gut microbiome. As a result, ...

Despite major efforts to keep operating rooms sterile, surgical wound infections remain a serious and stubborn problem, killing up to 8,200 patients a year in the U.S. Researchers suggests that narrow ...

Most antibiotics are double-edged swords. Besides killing the pathogen they are prescribed for, they also decimate beneficial bacteria and change the composition of the gut microbiome. As a result, ...

Antibiotic overuse must be avoided Similar outcomes for pediatric community-acquired pneumonia as broad-spectrum antibiotics. HealthDay News — Narrow-spectrum antibiotics, which are recommended as ...