NOS Door de toenemende resistentie van darmbacteriën als Klebsiella pneumoniae en E. coli en de Acinetobacter-bacteriën, die vooral op de huid voorkomen, tegen bijna alle antibiotica, zijn artsen vaker aangewezen op carbapenems .
American Pharmacists Association, pharmacist.com Sometimes therapy with carbapenems , for instance, is absolutely warranted. The pharmacist can make sure the most effective dose and duration [are] used, thereby maximizing the likelihood of treatment success and minimizing the likelihood of recurrence ...
The Pharmaceutical Journal Data released by the ECDC to coincide with European Antibiotic Awareness Day (18 November 2014) show that, although resistance to carbapenems...
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 ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) Ceftazidime-avibactam addresses important needs in the treatment of Gram-negative infections, including those caused by extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Gram-negative pathogens, carbapenem -resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) and ... 更多 »
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 »
Beta Wired In many of the cases of severe infection, if the first antibiotics round would not work, the doctors would seek treatment with carbapenems , which is a much stronger drug class. However, a team of scientists on India stated that most of the bacteria ... 更多 »
seattlepi.com In cases of severe infection, when bacteria are not responding to an initial round of antibiotics, doctors may turn to carbapenems , a stronger, "second-line" class of drugs. But a group of Indian scientists in Mumbai told Nature in 2012 that half of ... 更多 »
PharmiWeb.com (press release) Carbapenems are a group of antibiotics that had broad-spectrum activity when first introduced. In fact they were developed to replace antibiotics that lost effectiveness due to the emergence of bacteria that produce 'lactamases' enzymes that protect ... 更多 »