CIDRAP Among the most concerning findings is increasing resistance of K pneumoniae to carbapenems , which are among the last-line agents for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Carbapenem resistance remains relatively low in most countries, but in ...
The New Daily Mr O'Neill said one strain of E. coli had already become untreatable because of its resistance to carbapenems , which are considered the last-resort antibiotics. Malaria and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, were also getting harder to treat. There has ...
Medscape Using data from the Pediatric Health Information Systems, the researchers compared the use of all antibacterials and the prescription rates for a subset of antibiotics (vancomycin, carbapenems , and linezolid) both before and after the Infectious ...
Medscape In the age of increasingly resistant organisms and the need for broad-spectrum empiric coverage, prescribers often turn to the class of carbapenem antibiotics (eg, imipenem/cilastatin, ertapenem, meropenem). The spectrum of carbapenem antibiotics ... 更多 »
The Pharmaceutical Journal Data released by the ECDC to coincide with European Antibiotic Awareness Day (18 November 2014) show that, although resistance to carbapenems...
Daily Mail The report cites an example of E.coli that has now become resistant to the last-resort antibiotics, carbapenems . It said there are no effective drugs currently available to treat patients with that strain of the disease. Mr O'Neill said the review team ...
Deutsche Welle To prevent over-the-counter (OTC) sales of important antibiotics, the Indian authorities reacted last March by banning the prescription-free sale of 46 drugs, including 24 antibiotics, such as third and fourth generation cephalosporins, carbapenems , ...
Seeking Alpha Carbapenem , a class of last resort antibiotics, was developed to fight a whole spectrum of disease-causing bacteria. The first of these carbapenems was Thienamycin. A number of other carbapenems were discovered and marketed. The story of our fight ...
