Her chest is clear, except for some wheezing. She has no tachypnea or tachycardia. The
child's father is deeply concerned. What would be the harm of prescribing antibiotics for …

Antibiotics are arguably the single most important and widely used medical intervention of
our era. Almost every medical specialty uses antibiotic therapy at some point. These drugs …

Inflated expectations and flawed understanding of the scope of antibiotic efficacy and
applications have led to the rampant misuse and overuse of these socalled “miracle drugs.” …

Antimicrobials 1 are used to treat infections by different disease-causing microorganisms,
including bacteria, mycobacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi. In the vast majority of cases …

Everybody knows that bacterial resis-tance to antibiotics is a bad thing, at least for humans
and animals, if not for bacteria. Drugs that were effective for treating community-and …

Despite advances in prevention, diagnosis and management, infectious diseases endure as
the most common cause of death worldwide and the third most common cause of death in …

Background Over-prescribing of antibiotics is considered to result in increased morbidity and
mortality from drug-resistant organisms. A resulting common wisdom is that it would be …

Increased use of antibiotics in any community increases the risks that future bacterial strains
will resist the effects of current antibiotics. The consequences of a resistant bacterial strain …

The threat to human health posed by antibiotic resistance is of growing concern. Many
commensal and pathogenic organisms have developed resistance to well established and …

The global impact of antibiotic resistance is potentially devastating, threatening to set back
progress against certain infectious diseases to the preantibiotic era. Although most antibiotic …